assent of Parliament the Priory Alien and Prebend of Uphaven in the Cathedrall Church of Sarum with the Chappel of Charleton belonging to the Abbey of St. Wandragisile in Normandy and licenceth the said Abbot to sell and the said Prior to buy the same Upon two Petitions of Katherine Queen Dowager of England and the King in performance of the league made between the French King and King H. 5. by two Letters Patents granted to the said Queen for her Dowry sundry Mannors Customes and other hereditaments of the Town and Principality of Wales and Dutchy of Lancaster there named to the clear yearly value of 20000 marks the which Dowry and Letters Patents are confirmed by the whole Estate wherein sundry provisoes are Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THat no man be bound to answer in the Chancery for any matter determinable at the Common Law on pain of the Plaintiff to lose 20 l. The Statute made in the 17 R. 2. shall be executed The print touching Purveyors cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print for avoiding of Irish men cap. 3. agreeth with the record A motion for the allowance of Sheriffs of no great force That all liberties granted to the Mayor Constable and Merchants of the Staple may be confirmed and that no plea hanging before the said officers be removed by writs or Letters Their liberties shall be confirmed without this Clause licet to the rest as it hath been heretofore the same shall be It is enacted that all offices granted to any person for life or in Fee by H. 4. or H. 5. shall be confirmed albeit in the grant of the same there be no expresse mention made of the value Anno Secundo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. primo die Septembris Numerus ordo Nobilium idem quod in posteriori Parliamento praeterque quod Iacobus de Berckley omi tendus est Henrico de Percie Com. Northumb Radulpho de Nevil Com. Westmerland Magistro Tho. de la Warr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Johanni de VVelles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginald Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland VVillielmo de Clinton VVillielmo de Harrington Tho. Com. Marescallo Edwardo Com. Marchiae Tho. Duci Oxoniae Ricardo Com. VVa Jacobo de Audley Ricardo Cromwell hlr Hen. Fitz-Hugh The Parliament holden at Westminster the twentieth day of October in the second year of the reign of Henry the Sixth AFter the Commission read made to Humfry Duke of Gloucester sitting as in the last Parliament tit 1. The Bishop of Durham being Chancellor of England by the Dukes commandement declared the cause of the said Parliament and took for his Theam Deum timete Regem honorificate Upon which words he shewed how we ought to fear God viz. with a child-like fear quoniam qui timet Deum diligit eum tunc illuminabitur cor ejus And that the King ought to be honoured sith this realm had their longing viz. that the King of England might be King of France the which being brought to passe by the travel and Conquests of this Kings Father enforced the same according to this saying Omnis qui diligit eum qui genuit diligit eum qui natus est He further sheweth that the Lords of the Council appointed in the last Parliament for the governance of the realm and observation of peace during the Kings minority were assembled to the end they might by advice and assent of the Commons perfect the same wherefore he willed the Commons by their assembling to choose their Speaker and to present him to the said Duke the Kings Commissary Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Friday the 22. of October the Commons presented before the Commissary and Lords Iohn Russell Esquire to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed Where Iohn la Talbott of Furnivall being the Kings Lieutenant of Ireland had accused Iames Boteiler Earl of Ormond of certain treasons depending before Iohn Duke of Bedford and Constable of England in his Marshals Court the King to appease the same doth by assent of Parliament utterly abolish the said accusation and suits upon the same Note the Accusations are particularly recited The Commons doe send certain by name to the Duke of Gloucester for vouch safing to make them privy to the Treaty of the Scotish Ambassadour for the delivery and marriage of the Scotish King which they liked well The order that the Minter within the Tower shall keep the Exchange conteined in the last Parliament tit 35. is to continue at the Kings pleasure It is enacted at the petitions of the North Counties that a Coinage should be at York during the Kings pleasure and that all men doe bring in their gold there to be coyned which is not of full weight On Wednesday the 17th day of December the Chancellor by the Kings Commissary appointed and adjourned the Parliament from the same day unto the next after Saint Hillary then ensuing On the 18th day of February being the last day of the Parliament the Commons granted to the King for two years the subsidie of Poundage as in c. The names of such Bishops Lords and other persons as were appointed to be of the Kings Council All which persons took upon them to be Counsellors upon certain Articles for the Orders touching the Council far swarving from the Articles in the last Parliament tit 26. to 34. and much in derogation of the Protectors power Amongst all the Articles I find this not the worst that the Clerk of the Council should be sworn ever to preferr and to procure the poorest man his Bill and Answer And the Kings Sergeant for Council to take no money therefore Iohn Mortimer of Bishops Hatfield in the County of Hereford Knight being committed to the Tower for supposition of Treason done against H. 5. broak the Tower in the first year of this King for which breach he was indicted of Treason and thereupon the same Indictment by consent of Parliament was confirmed to be good and the same Iohn being after apprehended was at this Parliament brought against whom upon the same Indictment Judgement was given that he should be carried to the Tower drawn through London to Tibourne there to be hanged drawn and quartered his head to be set on London-bridge and his four quarters on the
and cannot afterwards upon great suit be ended in the Chancery to have their right discussed even to the disherison of divers That remedy may be provided so as without delay the right may be discussed and the party restored to his Land if his right be found Let the same Law be kept as heretofore was done and if any man find himself grieved let him shew himself specially his case and he shall have right Whereas a man for Treason doth forfeit all his lands to the King of whomsoever the same be holden that where the King doth grant away those lands without saying To hold of himself the Law may be declared in certain Whether the Donee shall hold of the King or of the former lord And where the King giveth those lands to hold of himself le quell le Chartre est repellable eant regarde a les seruises on nemy The King is pleased that in such case it shall be as it hath been in the times of his Progenitors of the Auncestors des gentz de la terre and if Declaration be hereof to be made the same shall be by good advice among other Articles whereof new Law is required Whereas Commissions went forth to enquire of all such as have in lands Five pounds Ten pounds Twenty pounds Forty pounds and above unto One hundred marks which Enquests were with much diligence per milts Gentz des Countees thereunto sworne and returned into the Chancery whereupon went forth Writs out of the Exchequer to levy of some the double of some treble that by good Enquâ—sts was found for Archers Hoblers and men of war contrary to Law and also Writs went forth to levy of some small Towns which are neither Cities nor Boroughs Twenty marks Twenty pounds at pleasure without any manner of Process The Commons thereof pray remedy De si Come nostre Sieur le Roy ad promise de sun bon grace de fair droit as jouiz geeva que plendre se voudront If any such Imposition have been made the same was upon great necessity and with the assent of the Counts Barons autres Grantz and some of the Commons then present Nevertheless the King will not that such Imposition be unduly drawn in consequence Whereas the King hath ordained two Great Seals for sealing of Judicial Writs in the Common-Pleas and Kings-Bench for every of wâ—ich Judicial Writs the Commons pay seven pence and for Originals six pence That he will ordain a Small Seal for Judicial Writs so as men may pay but Three pence for a Seal of a Judicial Writ to the great ease of the people and then will more Writs be purchased to the Kings great advantage For now the suit is so hard and dear that the mean sort are not able to pursue their rights Unto poor men shall be given for Gods lake and it is reason that such as are able do pay as in former times hath been used That where Land is given to a man and his wifeâ— their Estate is now dispunishable of Waste though they have no childe between them whereby often happeneth great damage and disherison to him in the Reversion That a Writ of Waste in such case may lie Let this remain among other Articles whereof new Law is required That Writs of Possession may lie of Lands devisable in case where they are not â—evised as of other Lands and in case such Lands be devised there to be saved to the Tenants their Answers Let this remain among other Articles whereof new Law is required That the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Prelates have of late made a Constitution to give Tythes of Underwood only sold where heretofore no such Tythes were paid And further that now the Church-men by force of the said Constitution do take and demand Tythes as well of Great wood as of Underwood sold contrary to that which hath been used time out of mind Wherefore as well of one point as of the other they pray remedy The Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Bishops have answered That such Tythes are not demanded by force of the said Constitution but only of Underwood Whereas divers Aids have been granted to the King for maintenance of his Wars to the intent the same should be wholly to his profit divers Merchants by confederacie amongst themselvâ—s have colourably and covertly by way of Usury bargained wâ—th the King and have imposed upon these goods great sums viz. upon every Sack of Wooll Twenty three shillings four pence de pardonne en le Bargain ou pluis sont tenus de prendre a very value les biens le â—oy on dapestera lui lour deniers que touz les auters poures de sa Come de les donor Also in their payments they have allowance of Bills gained by Brocages of Debts due by the King ou ils achatent a liure ascune 12 d. ascune per 2 s. where there is more reason the King should have that advantage then they Also after their bargain at their suit there hath been stay and forbidding that no English Wooll may pass over Sea whereby the King hath lost his Subsidy and Custom too as much as they made chiâ—vesance by reason of which stay the Commons could not sell their Wools to pay their Fifteens and other charges And further some of the Collectors and their Deputies in gathering the said Wools have used great extorcion upon the people by false Weights Wherefore they pray the particulars may be examined in Parliament in presence of some persons to be assigned by the Commons to the end that the goods of the people taken for the Kings use may reasonably and wholly be turned to his profit so as the parties accused may not be excused against the King by fained and colourable Answer as between Merchant and Merchant The King will appoint some of the Sages of his Council to hear and determine the things contained in this Article And if any of the Commons can inform the King for his profit of any thing contained in this Article let him set it down in certain and the Justices appointed to enquire of false money shall have power to enquire of the Processes of such Ministers That the King by advice of his Council will provide remedy against the Popes Collations now of late made to Abbies and Priories which heretofore were never seen and are against the Liberties of the Church and to the disherison of the King and other Lords that are Patrons and blemishment of the Religious persons of England when these promotions shall be collated on strangers not fit and perhaps are Cardinals The King will advise with his Council what in this case shall be best to be done The Commons pray remedy That whereas men were about to prove Wills before the Official
Whereas divers Murders Emblers de gentz Robberies Manslaughters Ravishment of Women Felonies and other misdeeds are committed and maintained within the Realm without number and so favoured by Charters of Pardon and procuring of deliverance that the misdoers and maintainers care not for the Law nor stand in fear to the great destruction of the people That remedy may be ordained by Statute that such misdoers and maintainers may not be comforted nor imboldened by any the means aforesaid Touching Pardons to be hereafter granted the King will advise with his Council so to do that no such Charter shall pass but to the honor and profit of him and his people And for Charters before this time granted he will advise with his Council what allowance thereof shall be made Whereas in the Parliament holden lau dis septisme of the King it was ordained That no Alien should by Provision from Rome take any Benefice and thereupon the King by his Letters wrote to the Pope concerning that matter and the assent of Parliament and justified the same les Grantz Comons wrote also another Letter under the Seals des diiz Grantz and of the Commons of Cities and Boroughs And certain appointed through England de Pendre the Proctors of Cardinals other Aliens Subdelegates and their Notaries And also Cries defence was made throughout England that no person upon pain of forfeiture should bring into the Realm Bulls or Process concerning such Provisoes and if any should that they should be taken and brought before the Council to answer such their contempt and afterwards in the next Parliament it was assented by the King and his said Commonalty That if any person of any condition whatsoever Provisor Procurator Notary Promoter or other whatsoever should pursue in the Court at Rome or elswhere in Court Christian to reverse Judgment given in the Kings Courts that he should be taken by his body and brought to answer it and if he were attaint that he should forejure the Realm or be committed to perpeâ—ual prison That if he could not be found then to be by due Process outlawed which then was ordained by a Statute perpetually to endure as by a Bill of that Parliament appeareth Yet nevertheless Cardinals and other Aliens have and do daily accept Benefices within this Realm by provision by their Procurators being Englishmen and do take as well Benefices meerly appurtenant to the Demesn of the King and of other Lay-Patrons as of Religious persons in despight of the King A des ditz Grantz de tout le Commune And thereupon they and others do pursue and follow divers Process in the Court of Rome and other Courts Christian there to annull and reverse Judgments given in the Kings Court to the prejudice and disherison of the King and Commonalty and contrary to the cryes defence surditz Whereupon the Commons pray the King to have regard of the said Letters so sent to the Court of Rome and to the relief and maintenance of holy Church and of Divine service here in England and of the damage destauction and disherison of the Church and his Crown des Gentz Comminaltie And by the Sages Justices Serjeants and others to ordain such punishment as well against Provisors Aliens their Executors Notaries and others their Procurators as against the Impugnors of the Judgment aforesaid as before hath been And that the same be reduced into a Statute perpetually to endure as often hath been desired And that such and so many Writs as should be needful be thereupon granted of course so as that which shall be herein ordained by Parliament be kept undisturbed for any singular profit It seemeth to the Council good to be done if it please the King by assent de Grantz to command the Commons being then before him in Parliament to advise him what they think best to be done in this case Wherein the Commons did declare their advice to the King and Grantz by a Bill in form following viz. De avisera sur sa lot les plusors Aliens il semble que bon est que nostre Sieur le Roy maunde ses Lettres au seint piere la Pape monstrant movant que il doit voler ordeiner tiels ministres beneficers en seint Egleise faire que poient levez profit faire quant al amendement salvation des almes des lour parocheines subgitz des queux ils out les cures mais les provenders aliens ne connisent n'entendant le putoys ne le lange d'engleterre ne la com d'engleterre loure pur quoy ils ne poient ne savant valer ne aider ne counceller les subgits per predications confessions ne autre maner entendable quiles defaults poient estre causes universeles de perte damnation des almes des Christians ausint er la ou benificers de seints Eglises curetes doient de commune ley faire residence despender les biens de seint Eglise enter lour poure parochiens les provisers aliens tout le profit emportent saunz residency amendemenâ— ou profit faire a loure benifices queux mischiefs deffauts suesdits le dit seint piere que est Soveraigne governeur de seint Eglise en terre aver doit aver le regard sil please nostre dit Sieur le Roy cestes mischiefs autres queux les Sages luy informerent au dit St. Piere maunder et monstrer per ses lettres come avaunt ses heures ad fait effectualment oue diligence pursuer per Sages que luy purrent enformer des novels accrochments contra son droit Royal est assaye de amendement saunz peril de alme ou conscience pleasance a la commune per protestation sil semble a nostre dit treshonor seiur le Roy son Councel que ore ne soit derogatorie ne prejudicial a sa Royal dignite ne a droit sa corone autrement nemy Iohn Matravers sheweth That in a Parliament holden whilst he was in the Kings service by information of his Adversaries in his absence a Judgment passed against him not indicted nor attainted nor called to answer In which Judgment he alleadgeth to be divers Errors dangerous aâ— touts les gentz d'Engleterre in time to come Also that he by the Kings commandment did shew the Errors before his great Councel at Westminster which Erors of the said Judgement were pronounced the Petitioner being present by the Kings protection Now he prayeth That the Judgment that was so given against him may in full Parliament be viewed and examined before the King the Peers and the Errors therein shewed by the Councel of the petitioner and that if the Judgement be erroneous it may be reversed and he restored to the Law and after the Judgment reversed the Petitioner will be ready to answer all men according to the
committed his sheep to the Pope to be pastured and not shorne or shaven That Lay-Patrons perceiving this Simony and covetousness of the Pope do thereby learn to sell their Benefices to beasts none otherwise then Christ was sold to the Jews That there is none so rich a Prince in Christendom that hath the fourth part of so much treasure as the Pope hath out of this Realm for Churches most sinfully A repetition of the honor of the Church and that all the plagues there particularly named have justly fallen upon this Realm for suffering the same Church thus to be defaced with declaration that it will daily increase without redress A perswasion to reedifie the same and the rather for that this was the year of Jubile the fiftieth year of the Kings reign the year of joy and gladness then the which could be no greater The means how to begin this was to write two Letters to the Pope the one in Latine under the Broad Seal the other in French under the Seals of the Nobles importing these particularities requiring redress And for a further redress and accomplishment to enact That no money be carried forth of the Realm by Letter of Lombardy or otherwise on pain of forfeiture and imprisonment and to enact the Articles heâ—eafter ensuing The King hath heretofore by Statute provided sufficient remedy and otherwise persueth the same with the holy Father the Pope and so mindeth to do from time to time untill he hath obtained as well for the matters before as for the Articles ensuing being in manner all one That the Popes Collector and other strangers the Kings enemies and only Legier-Spies for English Dignities and disclosing the secrets of the Realm may be touched That the same Collector being also Receiver of the Popes pence keepeth a house in London with Clerks and Officers thereto as it were one of the Kings solemn Courts transporting yearly to the Pope Twenty thousand marks and most commonly more That Cardinals and other Aliens remaining at Rome whereof one Cardinal is a Dean of York another of Salisbury another of Lincoln another Archdeacon of Canterbury another Archdeacon of Duresm another Archdeacon of Suffolk and another Archdeacon of York another Prebendary of Thame and Nassington another Prebendary of York in the Church of York have divers other the best Dignities in England and have sent over yearly twenty thousand marks over and above that which English Brokers living there have That the Pope to ransom Frenchmen the Kings enemies who defend Lombardy for him doth always at his pleasure levy a Subsidy of the holy Clergy of England That the Pope for more gain maketh sundry translations of all the Bishopricks and other Dignities within the Realm That the Popes Collector hath this year taken to his use the First-fruit of all Benefices To renew all the Statutes against Provisors from Rome sith the Pope reserveth all the Benefices in the world for his own proper gift and hath this year created twelve new Cardinals so now there are thirty where wonted to be but twelve and all those Cardinals except two or three are the Kings enemies That the Pope in time will give the Temporal Manors of those Dignities to the Kings enemies since he daily so usurpeth upon the Realm and the Kings regality That all Houses and Corporations of Religion who unto the Kings reign now freely election of their Heads the Pope hath accroached the same unto himself That in all Legacies from the Pope whatsoever the English Clergy beareth the charge of the Legacies and all for the goodness of our money That also it appeareth that if the money of the Realm were as plenteous as ever it was the Collectors aforesaid with the Proctors of Cardinals would soon convey the same For remedy whereof it may be provided that no such Collector or Proctor do remain in England upon pain of life and member And that no English-man on the like pain become any such Collector or Proctor or remain at Rome For better information hereof and namely touching the Popes Collector for that the whole Clergy being obedient to him dare not him displease it were good that Sir Iohn Strensall Parson of S. Botolphs in Holborn may be sent for to come before the Lords and Commons of this Parliament who being streightly charged can declare much more for that he serveth the same Collector in house five years A long Statute made against Runnegate servants Beggers and Vagabonds much after the sort in the Statute made in the good King Ed. 6. his days against Vagabonds Touching this long Bill of Labourers let the Statutes heretofore made be duly executed They require that the Statute made in 14 E. 3. that the Kings Ward should be committed to the next Heir of the Ward to whom the lands cannot descend yielding therefore as much as another would might be confirmed The King granteth thereto saving his Regality That time of prescription in Writ of Right may be from the Coronation of the King E. 1. and in Writs of Mortedauncestre nuper obiit Cozenage Aiel c. and such other Writs mixt in the Rights from the Coronation of the King now The King will be advised for changing the Law heretofore used That no Alien do enjoy any living that hath cure or requireth residence This Bill is answered before in the two long Bills of Rome For that errors had before Justices of Assize are revocable before the chief Justice of the Common Pleas they require that the chief Justice there be appointed no Justice of Assize The King granteth when the number may spare him That a general pardon may be of all Misprisions and Intrusions made into any Lands holden of the King in chief The King will shew favour where him liketh That they may have an Action of Account against the Executors of Gardian in Soccage The King will be advised untill next Parliament That restitution may be made to Englishmen farmours of any Religious Aliens house Touching Farmers abovesaid the King granteth so it concern Priors Churches Conventual Collegial and Parochial but for English Governours the King will be advised That no especiall grant be made to any man for singular profit which may sound to the disadvantage of the King or Realm Let them declare more especially That the Statuâ—e made for buyers in 36 E. 3. tit 10 c. may be kept and that Justices of the Peace may enquire of the same The Statutes therefore made shall stand and the Justices of Peace shall determine the same That an Infant within age levying a Fine may have respite two or three years after his full age to reverse the same The Kâ—ng will be advised of the change thereof That no Alien be made Head of any
with this adjunct that for as much as Clerks cannot have their remedy therefore as the Statute would that therefore they shall have their Actions against such Purveyors by way of Trespass and thereby recover treble damages mentioned in the Statute The Sheriffs and Escheators with their Wives and Servants and horse do over-charge poor religious houses and over that do exact great sums of money of them The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching Tithes and Oblations cap. 13. doth in part agree with the Record but not altogether quod nota That upon consultation granted of a pension brought by one person against another all depending before the Ordinary that the same Ordinary may fully decide the cause onely The King will charge the Justices to search forth the old Records and to do thereafter That no prohibition be granted before the whole circumstance of the matter be fully examined in the Chancery No prohibition shall be granted other then heretofore hath been and what ever was appointed in the last Parliament shall stand The Print touching tythes and Averments ca. 14. doth not altogether agree with the Record quod nota That the Ordinary may freely discuss every conditional consultation Let it be as it hath been That upon a prohibition for Tythes of Sylva cedua there may be readily granted a consultation and that neither the Judge neither the party pursuant be impeached therefore It shall be as it hath been That all men flying to the Church-yard or other holy places may enjoy the priviledge thereof without any temporal Watch or Ward No man shall make any ward but one of the Chancery The Print touching Arrests in Churches c. cap. 15. much swerveth from the Record which note Petitions for the City of London That all their Liberties with this clause Licet 2. any Statute notwithstanding may be confirmed To the first the King granteth to the second he will view the contraries and do thereafter They require that no stranger within the same Liberty do buy or sell any Merchandize of another stranger in pain of forfeiture The King willeth the same between Merchant and Merchant onely saving the Liberties of the Merchants of Aquitain That they attend upon no commandment of any the Kings Officers but onely at the Kings suit being sealed with the Great Seal or Privy except the Kings Justices according to their Charter Let it be continued as heretofore hath been It is enacted that the Citizens of London shall by their selves enquire of Customs Impositions and purprestures happening or arising within the City of London It is enacted that the Mayor and Chamberlain of London for the time being shall have the keeping of all the Lands and Goods of such Orphans as happen within the said City Saving to the King and other Lords their right of such as hold of them out of the same Liberty That the interpretation of any word or sentence touching their said Liberties which may severally be taken may be taken according to the intent and claim of the said Citizens Interpretation of Charters belong unto the King wherein if any doubt shall arise the King by advice will make interpretation according to reason That the City of London may enjoy all such Liberties as any other Town in the Realm if they have any other then the said Citizens have Let them declare the especial matter and they shall have answer That no protection Royal be allowed in debt account or Trespass wherein a Free-man of London is ten pounds For victual bought after the voyage or service whereof the protection mentioneth or for debt or contract after the date of such protection purchased the King granteth That no man condemned and laid in Newgate for any debt to any Citizen be removed to answer to the King in the Exchequer unless that the Kings debt be first to be due The King hath appointed the Barons and Officers of the Exchequer so to deal It is to be required that for any answer here given the Kings will is that the Citizens of London be in no wise restrained of any their Liberties or ancient Customs approved The Commons the last day of the Parliament by mouth required the Lords to have good regard that the King might have all such Lands as his Grandfather purchased to the ease of the Commons and also all the goods and Jewels of his said Grandfather considering what had been heretofore done in other Kings days in the like whereunto was made no other Answer but that the Lords wished the same for the Kings part and the soul of his said Grandfather The Parliament continued from day to day from the first day being the 13. of October this present year until the 18. of November in the same viz. in the whole 47 days At the which 18 day the Bills were read and the answers as aforesaid And so the King giving thanks to the Lords and Commons for their expedition and consideration of aid willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs for their Fees and so to depart And so ended this Parliament Anno Secundo Ricardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Quinden of Easter in the Second year of King Richard the Second IN the Quindena of Easter being the 25. of April the Duke of Lancaster and other Bishops and Lords assembled in the Kings Palace of Westminster attending of long time the coming of the King at the last for that certain Sheriffs had not made the return of their Writs the Parliament by the Kings commandment was continued untill the next day whereof Proclamation was made openly in Westminster-hall The next day being Tuesday for the cause aforesaid and for that sundry of the Bishops and Lords were then absent the Parliament by the Kings appointment was continued untill the next day The Wednesday following being the 27. of April the King with most of the Bâ—shops and Lords came into the Parliament into the Painted Chamber into the which the Commons were called before whom Sir Richard le Scroop Chancellor of England by the Kings appointment declared the causes of the Parliament vizâ— First was for the maintenance of the liberty of the Church Again for that in the end of the last Parliament the King had according to the order taken elected sundry Lords and others to be of his continual Council but for the sudden breaking up of the same Parliament he was not advised of the number which being chosen and sworn togethâ—r with the Nobles consulted about the Affairs of the Realm and the great dangers wherein the same was and weighing the great charges which the same needed would not fully determine the same without Parliament
next Parliament that all Merchants which shall bring in any cloth of Gold Riverchief Pearls Jewels or Furrs and all Merchants which shall transport Staple wares shall finde Surety to the Tower to the value of twelve pence in Bullion for every twenty shillings of such their Merchandise so brought in or transported That no Knight or Lady under forty pound land by the year do wear any precious Furrs cloth of Gold ribond of Gold or silk on pain to loose all that they have The King will be advised until the next Parliament It is enacted unto the next Parliament that every Goldsmith shall set his mark unto his Vessel which if it be not according to the sterling he shall forfeit it double be imprisoned and sined Certain Petitions of the Major and Aldermen of Callis touching their Liberties with the answers thereunto It is enacted that the Chancellor and Schollers of the University of Cambridge shall for five years in default of the Major and Bailiffs of the same Town of Cambridge have the punishment of all manner of Victuals Measures and Weights within the said Town and also power to punish the Major and Bayliffs and their Officers if there shall be any Victuallers for any such default And it is to be noted that of the printed Statute cap. 3. touching fained gifts and Feoffments to defeat mens Creditors there is no mention made in this Record Anno Secundo Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Gloucester the Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist in the Second year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday being the 20. day October and the first day of the Parliament certain of the Nobles met in a Chamber appointed in the Abby of S. Peters of Gloucester where for that divers of the Lords were not come nor the Sheriffs then returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned until the next day by the Kings commandment The same Thursday after the King with his three Uncles of Spain Cambridge and Buckingham the two Archbishops and divers other Nobles assembled in the Great Hall of the Abby of Gloucester and there appointed where the L. B. of Davids by the commandment of the King declared the cause of the Parliament as followeth viz. First for the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations of the Peace Secondly for that it was enacted that a Parliament should yearly be holden Thirdly for that the King desired to see and to consult with them so honorable an Assembly there gathered in Gods name which he commendeth willing unity and concord among them to be according to the resemblance of the Church Another great cause was for that the King being left in the midst of great Wars could not endure and maintain the same without their Aid He sheweth further that since the great villany and damage done by the Scots at Roxburgh at Truce thereupon taken for a time they the same Scots have allied themselves with the French to the end to depart from the same Truce and by all means to annoy the King and his friends All which to recite and the charges thereof to bear he willeth them deeply to consider One great mischief in the Commonweal he remembreth them viz. That the Law of the Land and the Law of Arms do not concur together by certain similitudes he wisheth them of those two Laws to make a Relative so as they may stand with the other Another mischief he noteth to wit Slanderers and sowers of discord between Nobles Gentlemen and Neighbours the which kind of men he resembleth to Dogs that eat raw flesh so applying them to eat and consume living men For all which enormities he wisheth them to seek redress and to be there the next day by eight of the clock to hear further Declarations and the Commons to keep the Chapter house within the great Cloister of the Abby aforesaid Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Friday after the two and twentieth of October the Lords and Commons assembled in the said great Hall where Sir Richard le Scroop Steward of the Kings Houshold declaring his own unworthiness there to speak shewed them how they were invironed with enemies and the King importably charged for keeping possession beyond the Seas namely that Callis cost him yearly twenty thousand pounds Brest twelve thousand marks besides Ireland Cherburgh Burdeaux and Bayn he sheweth that the old grant of the last Parliament was onely dispended in the Wars as the Officers could declare he wisleth them to consult for the rescue and the mean how to levie the charges After that the Commons came before the King where Sir Iames Pickering knight Speaker of the Parliament for the Commons maketh his Protestation as well for himself as for the whole House And first for the Commons That if he should speak any thing which happily might be ill taken it might be as as nothing so as the Commons at any time might amend the same And so much for himself He therefore rehearseth the whole charge of the Parliament pronoun the Chancellor and to the first points touching the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations for the Peace the Commons making low curtesies rendred therefore most humble thanks and pray God for the execution of the same To the aid required for the King he sheweth how in the last Parliament upon the like motion to the Commons repeating the great charges of the King by the Treasurer they then made answer that they saw no such cause of aid whereunto for the King it was then replyed that the Kings Coronation was chargeable and that if the Commons would grant such reasonable aid whereby the King might thereby provide an army that they nothing doubted but that the King of himself might continue the same without charging them of long time upon which promise and hope the Commons did then grant the same large aid and being now unable to do the same require pardon thereof thinking that a great part of the same grant remained yet in the Kings Treasury The said Sir Richard le Scroop not knowing any such promise of discharge made in the last Parliament charging them with unâ—ruth for surmising any rest of the last grant to be And thereto calleth for witness William Walworth and Iohn Philpot Citizens of London and Treasurers appointed and sworn Thereupon the Commons make request to know how and in what manner the same sums were defraied whether some were not therefore indebted and who should be Councellors and great Officers
Clerks or Artificers The King will herein do his best That some order may be taken touching Aliens having the greatest part of the Church dignities in their hands The King by advice of the Lords will provide therefore It is enacted that all Cardinals to Pope Urban that now is shall be seised into the Kings hands The Commons of the Isle of Wight pray remedy for that most of the Inhabitants by loss of Enemies and payments have forsaken the same Isle The King will do his best It is enacted that all the Statutes made in the time of E. 3. shall be observed The Statute touching Merchant-strangers to sell their Ware within any Port of the Realm and in the Book cap. 1. is so bemouldred and defaced as much of the Record wanteth The Record touching Merchant-strangers in the Book cap. 3. in like sort much impaired The print touching Mariners cap. 4. agreeth with the Record An Act that Pope Urban was true and lawful Pope and that the Livings of all Cardinals and other Rebels to the said Pope shall be seised in the Kings hands and the King to be answered of the profits thereof And that whosoever within this Realm shall procure or obtain any provision or other instrument from any other Pope then the said Urban shall be out of the Kings protection It is enacted that from henceforth the Officers of London shall not exact or demand of any the Clergy or Lawyers of this Realm Justices Sergeants or other learned in the Law or otherway who lie in London and not make their continual abode there any Tenths or Fifteens or other Taxes for any their goods there remaining Look 3 R. 2. tit 46. It is enacted that the Town of Yarmouth shall have their old liberties confirmed with their liberty of their Fair of Herring within the same Town and with the rod Kingly in such wise as King E. 3. did by his Charter to them lastly granted with the Clause of Licet without any Fine paying so as all manner of men as well Denizens as Strangers may freely buy and sell Herring within the same Town during the said Fair freely notwithstanding the Repeal lately made And it is to be noted that Statute cap. 5. touching Tellers of News of Noblemen or Councellors is not in the Record nor any mention thereof Quod nota Anno Tertio Richardi Secundi Rex charissimo Avunculo suo Johanni Regi Castelli Legionis salutemâ— Apud Westm. die Lunae post Festum Hillarii Teste Rege vicesimo die Octobris Consimiles Literae subscript EDmundo Com. Cantabr Tho. de Woodstock Com. Buck. Constab. Angliae Ricardo Com. Arundel Edmundo de Mortuo mari Com. Marchiae Tho. de Bello campo Com. Warr. Hugo Com. Stafford Gilberto de Umfravill Com. de Anegos Willielmo de Ufford Com. Suff. Willielmo de Monte acuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumbr Guiscardo de Angle Com. Hunt Johanni de Mowbray Com. Northampton Edmundo Courtney Com. Devon Jacobo de Audley de Heleight Willielmo de Latimer Willielmo Bardolfe Rado Basset de Drayton Guidoni Brian Rogero de Bello campo Johanni de Clinton Gilberto Talbotâ— Willielmo Bottereaux Johanni de Waâ—re Henrico de Scroope Johanni de Nevill de Raby Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamalake Richardo de Stafford Johanni Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthinâ— Mauritio de Berkley Johanni de Arundell Warino de Insula Henrico Fitzhugh Richardo de Scroope Tho. Darcye Nich. Burnell Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Alm. de Sancto Amando Johanni Buttort Johanni Lovell Rogero de Scales Richardo de Cromwell Michaeli de la Poole Petro de Malo lacu Rado Baroni de Greystock Waltero Fitzwalter Roberto de Feâ—rariis de Weme Roberto de Harrington Tho. de Morley Chr. Willielmo de Furnivall Willielmo de Aldborough Chrâ— Johanni de Cobham de Kent Hugoni de Dacre Chr. Roberto de Willoughby Johanni de Wells Johanni de Clifford Rogero le Strange de Knokin Edmondo Com. Cantabrigiae Custodi Quinq Port. Anno Tertio Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster on Monday next after S. Hilary in the Third year of Richard the Second THe same Monday being the 17. of Ianuary as well the King in proper person as sundry Bishops Lords and Commons came to Westminster where for that divers Lords were not come by reason of great rain late before fallen nor sundry Sheriffs returned their Writs the Parliament by the Kings commandment was adjourned untill the next day and thereof open declaration made in the Chamber de Pinct with charge that all men do return the same next morning The Tuesday following the King with divers Bishops Lords and Commons came into the said Chamber de Pinct where the Knights and Burgesses were called After which Sir Richard le Scroop Knight Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment declared the causes of the same Assembly First for the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and preservation of the Peace Secondly for that the Regality of the Kings Crown was greatly impaired by sundry means as well by the Court of Rome as otherwise wherein the provisions therefore made were as well to be executed as further remedy to be provided for Thirdly to consult how to resist not only the Enemies of France Spain and Scotland who had raised hot wars but also to suppress the Rebels of Ireland and Gascoin and how to defend the Kings dominions beyond the seas All which for that the same could not be accomplished without their aid he willed them to be advised thereof shewing them further that the Lords of the Great Council should when they would make them privy as well to the receipts of the last Grant and Subsidies of Staple-ware as of the disbuâ—sing of the same Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Tryers of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above After which the Lords and Commons were eftsoons assembled in Parliament where the Chancellor made further declaration of the causes of their Assembly shewing of the Grant made by them at Gloucester of the new increase of Woolls and Six pence of every Twenty shillings in merchandise or wares and the revocation of the same at the next Parliament upon grant of singular persons which was promised to have been able to have furnished Twenty thousâ—nd men of Arms and so many Archers where the charge of the Soldiers came to Fifty thousand besides many other charges there declared for the which the King stood indebted whereof he willed them to have due consideration After their charge given to the Commons they returned
money the King establisheth the order ensuing for passage over of Wools thinking thereby the more speedily to come by great sums to his content The print touching Merchant strangers cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Staple to be open to all Merchants whatsoever cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching a Subsidy for keeping the Seas cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching the old Estates that ought to come into the Parliament cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching the inquiry of Heresies cap. 5. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after All Souls in the fifth year of King Richard the Second FOr that this year All Souls fell on Saturday the Parliament was adjourned until Munday ensuing on which Munday the King and many Bishops and Lords came but for that sundry Sheriffs made no return of their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill Tuesday after on which day the King and Lords and Bishops came into the White Chamber at Westminster and caused the names of the Knights and Burgesses to be called where upon the default of sundry of them the Parliament was therefore adjourned unto Wednesday after On which Wednesday for that great debate rose between the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Northumberland so as great force of arms men and Archers armed in warlike manner on both sides came to the Parliament whereof great complaint being made to the King the King with his Councel and Nobles were much busied to appease the same the King therefore adjourned the same Parliament till Saturday after On that same Saturday the King being in Parliament and the Councel being called by their names William Cant. elect and confirmed Chancellor of England began to declare the cause of the Parliament taking for this his Theam Rex convenire fecit consilium whereupon in English he made a good Oration applying it to the good vertuous government of the King and of his reign affirming that no reign could long endure if vice reigned therein the which to redress by this Parliament that could not be by the order of the other Law the King therefore had called the same Receivers of petitions for England Ireland and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triers of petitions for England c. as above Triers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The which done the Chancellor declared That on Munday the cause of the Parliament should more especially be declared willing all men therefore to attend The Wednesday after but certainly it should seem to be the Munday the Commons were all called by their names within the Chamber Blank where Sir Hugh Segrave Treasurer of England by the Kings Commandment remembred the Oration of the Archbishop of Canterbury and said that the especiall cause was to maintain the liberties of the Church and to provide for the observation of the peace and namely to punish the horrible tumults and rebellion made against the King in those tumults who was enforced to grant manumissions to the bondmen and others of the Realm as on them having Kingly power under the Great Seal of England The which he knowing to be done against Law willed them to seek remedy accordingly due for the confirmation or revocation thereof In the end he touched the Kings great want whereof certain of the Council should make them privy And so wishing them thereof to have due consideration wished the Commons to depart to their accustomed place within the Abby of Westminster The Monday after in the third day of the Parliament being the eighteenth day of November the Commons came into the Parliament to present Sir Richard Walsgrave knight whom they had chosen their Speaker who excused himself and desired to be discharged of the office whereunto the King on his allegiance willed him to stand being chosen by his companions Thereupon the said Sir Richard maketh the common protestation He then required a more full declaration of the Kings meaning either by a mean rehearsal or by his repetition The King therefore appointed Sir Richard le Scroop knight and created Chancellor to do the same who did so and namely touching the Repeal of the Manumissions made to the Bondmen Whereto all the Commons cryed with one voice that the Appeal was good and lawful adding That such infranchisement could not pass without their consents and so upon the prayer of the Commons the same Repeal was by assent confirmed Certain Bishops Lords and Nobles upon the request of the Commons are appointed to confer with them After this Conference the Commons thought it good that the King would grant a general Pardon to the offenders in these tumults The Commons require That of the particular consultations of the Bishops Lords and Justices a hearing might be brought to them Whereunto was answered that the old custom was that the Commons should bring to the Lords their conceits and devises and not to the contrary The which the King would should be observed The Commons afterwards coming into the Parliament and making their protestation shewed that for want of good redress about the Kings person in his houshold in all his Courts touching Maintainers in every County and Purveyors the Commons were daily pilled and nothing defended against the Enemy and that it would shortly deprive the King and undo the whole State Wherefore in the same Government they intirely require remedy Whereupon the King appointed sundry Bishops Lords and Nobles to sit in Privy Council about these matters Who since that they must begin at the Head and go at the request of the Commons they in the presence of the King charged his Confessor not to come into the Court but upon the four principal Feasts The Devises of the Commons exhibited in a Schedule First that there may be appointed about the Kings person the most sage and approved wise men in the Courtâ— the like Officers for the well governance of both That the most wise and able man in the Realm may be chosen Chancellor and that he seek to redress the enormities of the Chancery That the like order may be of the Treasurer Barons and Officers of the Exchequer That the like be made touching all the Justices of both Benches and that in thâ—s year two Justices two Serjeants and four Apprentices of the Law may be sworne to declare the delay and defects of the Law and that the same may be remedied That upon the accomplishment hereof the Commons may view the names of the persons and see the Ordinances before the confirming of them The provision may be made for observing of the peace and repressing of such tumults as late were
be advised That such Sheriff as failed to account the last Trinity Term considering the Insurrections then may be pardoned The King granteth thereto The King also pardoneth all Collectors and Comptrollers of the last Subsidie all issues lost for not appearing at Hilary term last in the Exchequer It is enacted that from henceforth the Collectors of Tenths and and Fifteens shall be accountable for the same by their Oath before the Barons of the Exchequer That all debts for lands seized into the hands of the King Edw. 3. may be pardoned If any speciall man make his complaint he shall be heard but generally the King will not grant thereunto It is enacted that no sum of the land be set on any person at the receipt of the Exchequer by payment or assignment unless such person be present or by his Attorney in Court An Order that the Collectors of Subsidies shall be charged to accompt according to the Roll between them and their Comptrollers made saving that they shall be further charged upon better proof Upon complaint made against Forresters it is enacted that the Charter of the Forrest be kept and that perambulations be made where any need is according the bounds made in the time of King Edward the first The King granteth that all men may have exemplifications of Deeds and Charters enrolled in the Chancery defaced in the late Insurrection without any fine in the Chancery It is enacted that all Sheriffs shall have allowance towards their charges of all such Fee-farms or profits belonging to the Sheriffs which were after granted to any Lords or other person for any annuall rent That no Prohibition be denied for Tenths of Wood demanded of Wood passing the age of twenty years As it hath been used the same shall be That no Fines be taken in the Chancery for any Writ The King meaneth not to lose any such commodity left him by his Ancestors It is enacted that the Charter made to Yarmouth touching one grant viz. That no man should buy or sell within seven miles of the same and that the road called Kirkleroade in Suffolk being six miles off the Town should be repâ—aled saving their old Liberties They pray remedy against such as purchase Abbies Priories or such like dignities from the Court of Rome by Provisions The King would have the Statutes therefore made to be executed That no Alien do enjoy any Ecclesiastical living within the Realm The King willeth as next above It is enacted that if any religious or other person shall cautelously cause the King to be infeoffed of any lands or hereditaments holden of any mean person and thereby extinguish his right to give the same in Mortmain that notwithstanding any such cautelous Feoffments the Lords or mean person of whom the lands are holden may lawfully enter saving to the King his due prerogative That the Heirs or Executors of any Captain taking wages and being dead or taken prisoner be not charged to pay any thing by them received It shall continue as heretofore That such Captains being appointed to serve on the Sea by a day certain upon the Kings Letters may receive their wages from the said day As heretofore so in the like case it shall be used The Kâ—ng upon request of the Commons granteth pardon to all Towns and Persons for their late Insurrections except the Town of Bury S. Edmonds and the names of them which are before excepted in a Roll. It is enacted that all Justices of Peace shall have full power at all times to make delivery of all rebels murtherers robbers and theeves taken with the manner so they be at the least three and one of them learned in the Law The print touching the Barons of the Exchequer cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The print touching Accompts in the Exchequer cap. 10. agreeth in effect with the Record but not fully for that some part is left out of the print The print touching Accompts there cap. 11. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Accompts of Nihil cap. 13. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Clerk of the Pipe and Remembrancer agreeth with the Record The print touching suing out of Liveries cap. 15. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching Clerks sues in the Exchequer cap. 16. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that from henceforth no Barons of the Exchequer Clerk of the Pipe Remembrancer Opposer Comptroller Clerk of the Pleas Clerk of the Forein summons Auditor or other Chief Officer of the Exchequer be made unless he be well learned in the Law or otherwise very skilful in the courses and uses of the Exchequer The King at the request of the Commons enlargeth his Pardon for certain Felonies and Treasoâ—s as may in the Record appear The print touching Money cap. 2. far swerveth from the Record as having additions and diminutions other then the Record doth warrant The print touching Shipping and the Navy and of Merchandise cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching Wines cap. 4. agreeth with the Record to the midst of the same print The other half of the Record by evil keeping is lost unless it may upon search be found again The print touching Entry into lands cap. 7. agreeth with the Record as appeareth before tit 7. The print touching the Repeal of Manumissions made by the King cap. 6. agreeth with the Record as appeareth before tit 12.13 Anno Sexto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of Saint Michaell in the 6th year of K. Richard 2d. THe Monday in the Octaves of St. Michaell being the first day of the Parliament sundry of the Lords and Bishops came into the painted Chamber looking of long for the other Lords and Commons but for that sundrie Sheriffs had not returneâ— their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill Wednesday after On which Wednesday the King with most of the Bishops and Lords came into the Chamber depinct where every of the Commons were by their names called in before the Bishop of London Chancellor of England who by the Kings commandement pronounced the causes of the Parliament for three points The first for the maintenance of the liberty of the Church The second for observation of the peace laws and usages The third for the good governance of the Realm and of the Dominions of the same as against misdoers defence of the North-marches towards Scotland defence of the Territories beyond the Seas for the safetie of Ireland and Gascoyn for succouring of the Kings subjects in Portugal for the keeping of the Seas and for the charge about the same
whom Master Robert Braybrook Bishop of London and Chancellor of England by the Kings Commandement declared the cause of the Parliament to be for maintenance of the Liberties of the Church and preservation of the Laws and peace of the Realm He then remembring them of that their ayde granted in the last Parliament and of the Kings purpose to go into Flanders for the voyage of the French sheweth that since the last Parliament heavy tydings came how that the French King had subjected to himself the whole Countrie of Flanders except the town of Gaunt and that upon the same tydings the King called a great Councell at Westminster by which it was determined that the King should pass in person to the rescue of the town of Gaunt if safely with his honour he might so do And that now therefore the Parliament was called for them to consult whether it were best for the King to go in person or to send an Army and for mony to maintain the same with the Circumstances thereto belonging the which he willed them fully to digest and to make speedy answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyn c. as above After the Commons had debated two daies of the same charge they besought the King to assign to them certain Lords there named to consult with them which was granted albeit it were at the election of the King to assign these Lords or others at his pleasure This done after long deliberation of the Commons of the rates aforesaid they came into the Parliament before the Kings presence and the Lords when Sir Iames Pickering Knight then Speaker after the Common Protestation made saith That albeit the same their consultation did properly appertain unto the King and Lords yet since it stood with their pleasures to charge the Commons therewith their conceit was that it had been best for the King in person to have enterprized a voyage which for that it could not for sundry reasons be they thought it best that the Bishop of Norwich having the Popes Crosary for persecuting the Anti-Pope his adherents should take upon him the quarrell against the French whereof was hope of good success he saith further that considering the Scots were so lusty that they would not agree to any reasonable league whereby we are like to have war which to us was accounted most dangerous they thought that the King or his Uncles of Lancaster Cambridge or Buckingham might not in any wise be spared out of the Realm untill with Scotland some certain order were taken the which they spake not by way of Counsell but to shew their advise whereto for the King was said a little difference to be between Counsell and advise The proffer of the Bishop of Norwich to the King and Lords in the beginning of the Parliament was so as the King would gâ—ant to him the whole 15 th and 10 th granted in the last Parliament with the 6 d. of every pound Merchandize and 2 s. of every Tun of Wine lately granted for the safe keeping of the Seas he would in seasonable time of the year furnish and send into France 3000. men at Armes and 3000. Archers of whom 500. men at Armes and 500 Archers should be appointed to keep the Sea and further that if he might have the West-Admirall to attend he would before March ensuing appoint for the defence of the Sea great Ships of War and Barges well appointed Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the Liberties of the Church the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest be maintained That for the grant of vi d. of every pound of Merchandize and ii s. of every tun of Wine the Seas may be well kept The Chancellor and other Officers there named shall provide as speedie remedie as may be That the King will provide for the defence of the Marches of Scotland and namely for Barwick and Carlile and that some truce or peace may be taken The Duke of Lancaster and other Lords are sent thither of purpose to take order therein That the Statute of Purveyors may be observed and that ready payment may be made The Statute therefore made shall be observed That the most approved wisemen may be chose to be chief Officers for the governance of the Realm that their names might be known to the Parliament and they not removed without good cause The King by advise of his Lords shall appoint such Officers as shall like him whom he meaneth not to remove before the next Parliament The print touching the pardon Cap. 1. far swerveth from the Record That able men may be appointed to be of Counsell about the Kings Person and that an order may be taken for the Kings houshold so as he may live upon his own The King therein will be advised of his Lords and take such orders as may be for his honour At the request of the Commons it is enacted that the Citie of London shall injoy all such liberties as they had in the time of King E. 3. or as were to them confirmed by the King now saving to all Strangers their Liberties confirmed and saving that Victuallers should have no particular Liberties by themselves but to be under the rule of the Major In short time after the Bishop of Norwich had advised himself he came before the King and Lords and offeredâ— so as the King would allow to him the fifteenth last granted by the Commons he would serve the King one whole year in his wars within France with 3000. men at Armes and 2500. Archers well horsed and appointed the which offer was thought to be very good and for the Kings honour but for that the King would not adventure any of his Subjects unless he knew who should be Chieftain or Lievetenant considering the Bishops profession was to the contrary he required to know who they should be the Bishop would not that declare unless the King did assent to his offer saying that if it were his pleasure so to do they then should be as ready and worthy persons as any were within the Realm his own person and others of the bloud excepted The King accepteth his offer whereupon the Bishop gave him four names of them willing him to chose one such for his Lievetenant as he thought good After the view of whom the King would not seem to choose any Nobleman whereby it was assented that if the Bishop
Com. Notting Iacobo de Audley de Hedligh Willo Bardolf de Wormegay Iohi. de Cherlton de Powis Rico. de Poynings Guido de Bryan Iohi. de Clinton Gilberto Talbot Iohi. de Ware Hen. de Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamelake Iohi. Nevill de Raby Iohi. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Tho. de Berkley Iohi. de Fallesly Chlr. Hugoni Burnell Willo le Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Iohi. Botuttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michaeli de la Poole Willo de Thorpe Willo de Windsor Rado Baroni de Greystock Willo Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Harrington Tho. Camois Chlr Tho. Talbot de Blarkend Robto de Willougby Iohi. de Cobham de Kent Willo de Daere Iohi. le Strange de Knokin Hen. de Nevill de Halmshire Willo de Aldburgh Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayâ—on Thomae Darcey Thomae de Morley Iohi. Backier Waltero Fitz-Walter Iohi. Lovell de Hichmerch Iohi de Monteacuto Simoni de Burley Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at Salisbury on the Friday next after St. Mark the Evangelist in the seventh year of K. Richard the 2. THe same Fryday being the 20 th of April for that the Duke of Lancaster and other Lords were not returned from the North and for that also certain Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill the Wednesday following and in the mean time the Commons were willed to go together to chose their Speaker The same Wednesday the Parliament was continued untill Thursday following The same Thursday the King in person with all the Bishops and Lords except such as were with the Duke of Lancaster in Scotland and the Commons which were assembled in the great Hall of the Bishop of Salisbury in Salisbury therefore richly hanged and dressed Sr. Michaell de la Poole Lord Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared the cause of the Parliament First for the maintenance of the Liberties of the Church observations of the Laws and preservation of the Peace The Second for treatie of Peace between him and the French whereof with opportunity he was to shew to them certain Articles wherein although the King of himself might well conclude yet for good will he would not without their knowledg and consent He sheweth that if the Peace take effect yet cannot the same be concluded without the meeting of both Princes which for his Honour requireth no small charge Besides the King hath spent much and daily must more for the defence against the Scots for saving his Peeres beyond the Seas and for the safetie of Guienne and Ireland the which how the same should be born he chargeth them of their allegiance to consult and give answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other Places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Monday the 10 th of May the Commons assembled beseeching the King to grant to them for conference certain Lords and Nobles there named which was granted After that the Duke of Lancaster with other Nobles were returned the Commons besought the King to grant to them the same Duke and his two Brothers of Cambridg and Buckingham After this the Lords and Commons granted to the King a moitie of a tenth and of a fifteenth of the laitie providing further that if Wars with France and Scotland did continue that then the King should have the other moitie of a 15 th so as the Clergie do pay thereto according to the rate and so as if Peace be taken the last moitie to cease Iohn Caâ—endish Fishmonger of London made his complaint first to the Commons and after to the Lords in full Parliament requiring first that he might have Surety of the Peace granted against Sir Michaell de la Pool Knight Chancellor of England the which was granted and Sureties for the Peace for the said Chancellor his Sureties were the Earls of Stafford and Salisbury That done Cavendish sheweth that he having a weighty suit depending before the said Chancellor against other Merchants and breaking with one Iohn Otier a Clarke of the said Chancellors for good success Otier undertooke he should be well heard so he would give him 10 l. for his travell Cavendish himself became bound to Otier therefore and shortly brought Herring and fresh Sturgion to Otier in part of payment which rehearsed he would not charge the Chancellor withall but left the Lords to judg thereof only he said that by the Chancellor he was delayed and could have no Justice at his hands And further he saith that at a time past the Chancellor caused him to be paid for his Fish and his Obligation to be cancelled but whether of conscience he leaveth it to the Lords Judgment The Chancellor first before the Lords and then before the Lords and Commons affirmed himself to be innocent and for delay and not doing Justice objected against him he avouched the Justices and Serjants that were at the hearing of the cause to the rest he said that in accompting with his Servants and Officers he bolted out the said Herring and Sturgion to have come as a cheat and understood also of the Obligation whereat being greatly moved he sent for Cavendish and ripping up of the matter caused him to be paid for the Fish and his Obligation to be cancelled Swearing by the Sacrament of JESUS CHRIST that he was not otherwise witting but altogether ignorant Hereupon Otier being sent for and examined swore that the Chancellor was never privie thereunto And the parties adverse of the said Cavendish upon their Oaths affirmed that they never gave any reward to the said Chancellor Whereupon the said Chancellor required his remedy against the said Fishmonger for the same so great a Slander Te Lords therefore troubled with other waighty matters let the said Fishmonger to bail to answer the said Chancellor and committed the matter to be ordered by the Justices In a Schedule thereto annexed is contained that Sir Robert Tressillian chief Justice of the Kings Bench Robert Belknap chief Justice of the Common Pleas with other Justices and Counsellors hearing this whole matter condemned the said Fishmonger Cavendish in a 1000. Marks for his slanderous complaint against the said Chancellor and his body adjudged to prison untill he had paid the 1000. Marks and made Fine and Ransome to the King also The Commons for answer to Peace said that it beseemed them not to intermeddle with their Counsel therein and therefore referreth the whole order
thereof to the King and his Councell The Commons were urged to know whether they desired Peace of War for one must they chose They answered an honourable Peace for the King but for that in the Articles were contained many terms of the Civill-Law which they understood not and for that as they understood the Articles were that the King should have Guienne of the French by homage and service they knew not what to say only they hope that the King meant not to hold Callice and other Terrytories gotten by Sword of the French Whereto was said that otherwise Peace could not be granted and therefore willed the Commons to chose Peace or War who in the end rather desired Peace The Abbot of St. Edmonds Burie by a long Bill sheweth how the men of the same Town were pardoned for their late Insurrections so as they did find sufficient Sureties for their good Behaviour to the Abbot and his Successors and further sheweth that the Towns-men hitherto had shifted the same and prayeth that they may enter into Recognizance for the same which condition they in Record expressed The Prior and Covent of Montague being an Alien by their Petition declared how Sir William Seymor upon a Sciri Facias to execute a Fine for the Mannour of Omdu-Hall with the appurtenances in Somerset brought against the said Prior and Covent in the Kings Bench recovered there the said Mannour He sheweth further how the said Sciri Facias was purchased hanging a Writ of right against the said Prior to which Writ the said Prior appeared and that the said Prior was over ruled to plead further and no entrie thereof made he further sheweth matter and prayeth ayde of the King and it was over ruled without entrie thereof made whereupon he beseecheth that the roll may be newly made and amended due entries made as in the roll is mentioned which by the advise of the Justices and others their learned Counsell was granted and made wherein for the Prothonotarie or Bean-pleader are goodly forms and directions After which amendment and enrollment granted the said Prior and Covent by a Petition sheweth the old matter and Record and for certain errors therein contained prayeth the Examination and reversall of the said Judgment in Parliament and his Sciri Facias framed upon the said case to warn the said Richard to appear at the next Parliament to abide the order of the same and therein no protection be allowed for the said Richard and further that the old process and Record be at the same next Parliament all which were granted Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest be maintained That no Sherriff Under-Sherriff or Escheator do remain in the office above one year The Statute made therefore shall be observed That where the Aldermen of London are yearly chosen and returned at the feast of St. Gregory the Pope they require that free choice may be made of the most able men as well of such as were the year before as of others and that yearly The King granteth thereunto as long as thereby is good government in the City Sundry Countries pray the King to make an allowance to such as have been Sherriffs for such summes as they could not receive and that provision may be made for all such as shall succeed As in times past the Chancellor and Treasurer may make allowance and for the rest the King will provide They require that the Statute made against Ravishers in the 6 th year of this King may be revoked The Statute shall continue saving to the King and other Lords their forfeiture Anno Octavo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Regi Castellae Legionis Duci Lancast. c. Apud West Teste Rege apud Westm. 28. die Sept. Charissimo Avunculo suo Edward Com. Cantabr Char. Avunc suo Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss Fratri suo Tho Com Buck. Dilecto fideli Rico. Com. Arundell Thomae Com. War Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Salop. Rob. de Vere Com. Oxon. Hen. de Percy Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iacob de Audley Willo Bardolf de Wormegay Iohi. Fallesly Chlr. Guido de Bryan Iohi. de Clinton Gilberto Talbot Iohi. de Warr. Hen. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. de Scroope Hugoni Burnell Tho. Camois Chlr Willo le Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Iohi. Botreaux Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Rado de Lumley Willo de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Harrington Iohi. de Clifford Robto de Willougby Rico. Talbot de Blackmert Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Willo de Eure. Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyer Willo de Aldburgh Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Thomae Darcey Thomae Morley Thomae de Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Iohi. Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi. de Monteacuto Iohi. de Cherlton de Powis Rico. de Poynnings Thomae de Berkley Iohi Devereaux Simoni Burleigh Constabular Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Saturday next after the Feast of Saint MARTIN in the eighth year of the raign of K. RICHARD the 2. THe same Saturday the Parliament for certain causes by the Commandement was adjourned untill Munday ensuing and on the same Munday it was adjourned untill Tuesday next following for the like cause at the Kings Commandement The same Tuesday before the King and Lords sitting and the Knights and Burgesses standing Sir Michael de la Poole Knight Chancellor of England speaking much of the Kings great care towards the Church Commons and Laws of England sheweth the same to be the chief cause of the Parliament Then rehearsing how the King had been environed with the French Spaniard Flemming and the Scots who being confederate made great preparations to c. which were like to ensue unless Politick advice were made to resist which was one other cause of this Parliament having these adjuncts how treasure might be gathered without which no resistance could be He shewed how for these Defences the King meant to hazard his own person to any perills whatsoever that he might justly encourage all estates willingly to offer themselves and what they had to such defence Then he touched the treachery and falshood of the French for that they in the last Treaty of Peace at Callice
enacted that the Statutes made touching Sheriffs and Escheators shall be observed The print touching Scottish money Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record Sundry Counties there named complain of the overcharging of Sheriffs and pray redress The King hath given full power to his Counsell to shew favour to every Sheriff upon his Accompt as to them shall seem reasonable That the Ordinance made in the 11th year whereby all Lands then Escheated to the King should be sold to his most profit may be confirmed Upon a more speciall Declaration right shall be ministred The King pardoneth to the Commons of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmerland all sums of money demanded in the Exchecquer by the name of divers Debts and their reliefs That redress may be had against the manifold Oppressions and other Trespasses done by the Men of Cheshire in the Counties bordering thereunto The King will be advised touching the Libertie of Cheshire They pray that against the horrible vice of Usury then termed Schefes and practised as well by the Clergie as Laytie the Order made by Iohn Nott late Mayor of London may be executed through the Realm The King willeth that those Ordinances be viewed and if the same be found to be necessary that the same be then affirmed The print touching the entertainment of Merchant strangers Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that no Denizen do Ship or cocquet Wools or Marchandize in his own name which belong to strangers to debar the King of his Custome on pain of Forfeiture The print touching Customers and Comptrollers Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record onely there wanteth touching Customers of Towns where the Staple should be within the Realm the which the print wanteth The Bakers Brewers and Buyers of Corne do claime 8. Bushels to the Quarter striked onely and no more The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That these words silva Cedua may be explained so as no man be driven to pay Tithe Wood to the contrary It shall be used as heretofore it hath been The King hath granted to the men of the Isls of Garnsie and Iersie Sercke and Aureny that they during the space of 8. dayes shall be free of all manner of Tolls Exactions and Customs within the Realm as his Leiges The Merchants of Kersies require that they may freely transport the said Kersies for the old Custome It is enacted that no Estues or Brothell Houses be kept in Southwarke but in the Common places therefore appointed Certain Port Towns require that the Admirall doe hold no Plea of trespass contract or Covenant done within their Liberties The King will appoint certain of his Councell to examine the matter and to take Order therein untill the next Parliament That remedy may be had against Mills Stanks Kiddells and such like Engines and Devises levyed upon the Thames The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching the gaging of Renish Wines Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The King at the request of the Commons by the assent of the Parliament repealeth the Judgement given against Iohn de Northampton late Mayor of London for certain Treasons and other Fellonies They require remedy against the outragious taking of Wages of Masters of Ships and Marriners The Admirall shall appoint them to take reasonable wages or punishment These things being done the Lords and Commons give humble thanks for the good Government and carefull zeale to them borne And the King gave thanks to them for their grants to him made And thereupon the Chancellor willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue Writs for their Fees and so the Parliament ended the third day of December And Note that of the 7th Chapter in print touching the Passage of them out of the Realm to be onely at Dartmouth is no mention made in this Record Anno Decimo quinto Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johi Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud Westm. Cro. Annimar c. Teste Rege apud Westm. Septimo Die Novembris CHariss Avunculo Regis Ed. Duci Ebor. Chariss Avunculo Regis Tho. Duci Gloucest Chariss Consanguineo Regis Ed. Com. Rutland Chariss fratri Regis Tho. Com. Cantii Chariss Fratri Regis Iohi. de Holland Com. de Huntingt Rico. Com. Arundell Chariss Consanguineo Regis Hen. Com. Derbie Tho. Com. Warr. Edwro de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Nottingham Tho. Com. Stafford Iohi. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Tho. de Morley Chlr. Iohi. Bourchier Iohi. Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Iohi. Clinton Rico. Talbot de Godrickcastle Iohi. le Ware Hen. le Scroope Iohi. de Roos de Hamelake Rado Nevill de Raby Iohi. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Iohi. Devereux Hugo Burnell Willo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Berkley Iohi. de Welles Philippo le Dispencer Hen. de Scto Amando Tho. de Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Greystock Willo Botreaux Milit. Iohi. de Bellomonte Robto de Harrington Robto de Willoughby Iohi. Cobham de Kent Willo de Dacre Iohi. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Phillippo Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Ioh. Devereux Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day â—ftâ—r All Souls in the Fifteenth year of the Raâ—gn of King Richard the 2. THe Friday being the same next day the Archbishop of Yorke Primate and Chancellor of England by the Kings appointment before him being present declared very wisely the causes of the Parliament As first the Church then the Laws and further that all Cities and Towns should enjoy all their Liberties as amply as ever they did He then shewed that the Parliament was summoâ—ed for three chief causes First for the observation of Peace and maintenance of the Laws The Second how the prices of Wools too much abâ—sed might be enhaunced And how the Wars of the same happily begun after the expiration of the truce might in best wise be maintained Thirdly touching the Statutes of Provision to see how the Holy Father might have that to him belonged Reddite quae sunt Cesaris Caesari quae sunt Dei Deo Receivers of the Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triars of Petitions for England c. as above Triars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above It is
touching the carrying of Corne out of the Realme Cap. 7. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in forme The King at the request of the Commons of Kent granted that the Collectors of all Tenths and Fifteens within the said County and their Successors shall Accompt in the Exchecquer by the names of Hundreds and not of persons nor of Towns so as the King be answered of as much as his Grandfather was notwithstanding any accompt The print touching Kersies Cap. 2. hath put to sale more than the Record warranteth quod nota The print touching Worsted Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record That sufficient persons be presented to Benefices who may dwell on the same so as their flock for want thereof do not perish The King willeth that the Bishops to whose Office the same belongeth do their duties This title is of no great force That remedy may be had against the Officers of London who newly exact of divers bringing any Cattle into Smithfield the third Beast The Mayor and Sheriffs of London shall answer the same before the Councell That remedy may be had against the Abbots of Colchester and Abingdon who in their Towns of Colchester and Culvelin clayme to have Sanctuary They shall shew their Liberties before the Councell who shall take Order therein Certain Counties pray remedy against the particular surcharging of Sheriffs The Kings Councell have full power to mitigate the same Sundry Towns of the West part praying remedy against the Officers of the Admiralty for holding Plea of matters determinable at the Common Law the which they pray may be revoked The Chancellor by the advice of the Justices upon the hearing of the matter shall remit the matter to the Common Law and grant prohibition That nothing be levyed of the Subjects by vertue of green Waxes out of the Exchecquer unless the cause be in the same declared The Statutes therefore made shall be observed Certain Towns of the West praying that they may have passage of Wools into Normandie and that the Normans may discharge their Wares at Southampton Let them repair to Callice as it is appointed The print touching damages in the Chancery Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The print touching Mault Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record onely the Record hath herth the which the print wanteth quod nota The print touching Searchers Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme The Parliament ended on Wednesday the 6th of March The print Cap. 9. touching Justices of the Peace agreeth with the Record as appeareth before tit 24. Of the print Cap. 8. touchiâ—g unlawfull Games assemblies and 9th touching Salmon Sewes there is no mention made in the Record Anno Decimo Octavo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Hen. Com. Darbiae c. apud Westm. Quindena Hillarii Anno xviii R. 2. Teste Rege Decimo Die Novembris Consimiles Literae subscript THo Com. Cantii Rico. Com. Arundell Tho. de Bello Campo Com. Warr. Alberto de Vere Com. Oxoniae Willo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. Camois Iohi. de Bourchier Iohi. Cherleton de Powis Iohi. de Clinton Iohi. la Ware Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willo de Roos de Hamelake Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Hugo Burnell Willo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. de Berkley Iohi. de Welles Philippo de Dispencer Almarico de Scto Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado de Greystock Constantino de Clifton Robto de Harrington Robto de Willoughby Iohi. de Cobham de Kens Willo de Dacre Iohi. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Willo Beauchampe de Burgaâ—enney Iohi. de Monteacuta Iohi. de Bellomonte Custodibus Quinque Portâ—â—m The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Quindene of St. HILLARIE in the xviiii th year of King RICHARD the Second ON Wednesday the 15th of St. Hillarie the Parliament by the assent of the Duke of Yorke the Kings Uncle and Warden of England was adjourned untill the next day At which day the Chancellor of England being not named shewed the Parliament was called for three causes First that the Church should enjoy all her Liberties Secondly for the good Government of the Realme and Administration of Justice Thirdly that the Duke of Gloucester was sent into the Realme to declare the Kings passage into Ireland his great zeal to Conquer them and the great hope thereof And how that the said Duke had to them especiall passage by mouth Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Lords and Commons towards the Conquest of Ireland grant to the King one Tenth and one Fifteenth Petitions of the Commons exhibited to the Duke of YORK Guardian of ENGLAND with their Answers SUndry Counties praying remedy against the overcharging of Sheriffs upon their Accompts The Kings former grant made to the Councell for the mittigation thereof shall continue They pray remedy against the Ministers of the Constable of Nottingham Castle for extorting iiii d. of every person passing with one load of Coals for his own use out of the Forrest of Sherborne The Statute therefore provided shall stand the Justices of Peace may further redress the same That remedy may be had against the men of Bristoll for clayming Custome of Wines discharged at Chepstow which ought to be free As it hath been That the Statute in the 13th that Shoemakers shall Tanne no Leather may be revoked The same Statute shall continue with this adjunct that Tanners shall tanne their leather well and sufficiently on pain of forfeiting of the same The Dean and Chapter of Leichfield by their Attorney upon the Scire fac returned served against the Prior of Newport-Pannel for errors in Judgment given against them at the Kings Bench require the exemplification and reverfall of the same The same Prior being in the Parliament solemnely called cometh not in whereupon the Dean Chapt. require that upon the Default they may proceed to the examination of the errors which was granted and Commandment given to Walter Clopton Chief Justice to bring in the whole Process and Record which he did The Process and Record being very long hath therein good matter of pleading worthy of noting It was adjudged that the Judgment made against the said Dean and Chapter in the Kings Bench
be resident upon his Office and that no comptroller upon pain of imprisonment do exercise his Office by deputie 109 The print touching Searchers Cap. 21. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 110 The print touching Judgment in pleas reall and personall Cap. 23. agreeth with the Record 111 That the Kings debt touching Purveyance of Victuals taken up may be payed So soon as the same may be 112 That remedie may be had against such Feoffees in trust of Lands or Rents as do charge the same with rent-charges against the will of the Feoffers Let the Kings Councell be advised hereof untill the next Parliament 113 That all such Abbots Priors Knights Esquires and other the Kings true Subjects as were lately impeached wrongfully by William Taylor late of Lampworth a Common Prover in the Kings Bench of sundry haynous Crimes for the which the said William was hanged drawen and quartered may be discharged and acquitted by the Kings Writ to be sent to the Justices of the Kings Bench. The grant of the King and the Writ sent to the same Justices Anno quinto Henrici quarti The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day after Saint HILLARIE in the fifth year of King HENRY the Fourth ON MUnday the fourteenth day of Ianuary being the first day of the Parliament the Bishop of London Brother to the King and Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of the Parliament and that the Kings will was that the holy Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties 2. He took then for his Theame these words multitudo sapientum and thereby learnedly declared that by Councell every Realm was governed and resembled every man to the body of a man and applyed the right hand to the Church and the left hand to the Temporaltie and the other Members to the Commonaltie of all which Members and Estates the King being willing to have Councell had therefore called the same Parliament and that for sundry causes 3. First for the utter appeasing of Welch Rebellions for rebelling of the malice of the Duke of Orleance and the Earl of St. Paule who had bent themselves wholly against the King and the Realm and namely by their late arrivall in the Isle of Wight where they took the repulse To consider the imminent perill of the Marches of Callice Guienne and other like Dominions to remember the wars of Ireland and Scotland and not to forget to take an order touching the late Rebellions of Henry Percy and other their Adherents at the Battail of Shrewsbury and so willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker 4. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. 6. Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above 7. Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyn c. as above 8. On Tuseday the fifteenth day of Ianuary the Commons came before the King and presented for their Speaker Sir Arnold Savage who excused himself thereof but the King would not receive the same but allowed the election thereupon Sir Arnold made the Common Protestation for himself and the Commons which was accepted 9. On VVednesday the sixteenth of Ianuary the Commons came before the King and desired him to have regard to the charges for the repressing of the VVelch Rebels and keeping of the Sea to consult of the great charges of his House That the King and the Prince would give Liveries according to the Statute made 10. That the King would provide for the repayring of his Castles and Houses and namely for his Castle at Windsor which were greatly in decay and not to grant away the profits of those Castles and Houses and notwithstanding to stand to the repayring of the same without which he could not but run to the great charging of the Commons and to the subversion of the whole estate 11. On Friday the eighteenth day of February the Earl of Northumberland came into the Parliament before the King and the Lords and there by his Petition to the King acknowledged to have done against his allegiance and namely for gathering of power and giving of Liveries wherefore he prayeth pardon and the rather for that upon the Kings Letters he yeilded himself and came to the King into York whereas he might have kept himself away 12. The which Petition the King delivered to the Justices by them to be considered Whereupon the Lords made Protestation that the order thereof belonged to them And so they as Peers of this Parliament to whom such Judgement belonged in weighing the Statute of 27 E. 3. touching treasons and the Statute of Liveries made in this Kings time adjudged the same to be no treason nor Felonie but onely trespass fineable to the King 13. For which Judgement the said Earl gave great thanks to the King and Lords And at the request of the said Earl he the same Earl was then sworn to be true Liegeman to the King to the Prince the Kings eldest son and to the heirs of his body begotten and to every of the Kings Sons and to their issue succeeding the Crown of England according to the Laws and that done the King pardoneth the said Earl his Fine and Ransome 14. After which the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed the King that forasmuch as he and the Duke of Yorke with other Bishops and Lords were of sundry suspected to have been of the Confederacy of the said Henry Percie that the said Earl might publish the truth the Earl upon the Kings commandement by his oath purgeth them all thereof 15. And on this day the levying of War of the said Sir Henry Percie and others was adjudged treason by the King and Lords in full Parliament 16. At the request of the Commons the Lords accorded that four speciall persons should be removed out of the Kings House viz. the Kings Confessors the Abbot of Dore Master Richard Durham and Crosby of the Chamber Whereupon Saturday the ninth of February the said Confessor Durham and Crosbie came into the Parliament before the King and Lords where the King excused them saying that he then knew no cause wherefore they should be removed but onely for that they were hated of the people and therefore charged them to depart from his House according to the agreement and the like he would also have pronounced against the Abbot if he had been present 17. On the same Saturday the Commons gave great thanks to the King in full Parliament for the favour
shewed to the Earl of Northumberland and further declared that this third time in worship of the Trinitie the Lords Bishops and they were sworne to be true to the King to the Prince and to his issue and to every one of the Kings sons severally succeeding the Crown of England albeit the same was more then needed for the which the King gave thanks unto them 18. The same day at the request of the Commons the King commanded the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland in token of perfect amity to kiss each other in open Parliament and to take each other by the hand thrice which they did and so often they kissed each other as they took hands being thrice and promised that their tenants and men should do the like 19. The same day the Commons prayed that such might be appointed to be the Kings Officers of Household as were renouned for vertue and that the Lords and Commons might be privie thereto 20. Friday the two and twentieth of February at the request of the Commons the Earls of Northumberland and Dunbar in token of amity before the King and Lords in full Parliament took each other by the hand and kissed one the other 21. The same day at the request of the Commons the King in full Parliament affirmeth the Archbishop of Canterbury the Duke of Yorke the Earl of Northumberland and other Lords which were suspected to be of the Confederacie of Sir Henry Percy to be his true Liegemen and that they nor any of them should not be impeached therefore by the King or his heirs at any time ensuing 22. The Commons rehearsing how King E. 3. in the parliament holden in the eleven of his raign created his eldest son Duke of Cornwall and the same Dukedome annexed to the Crown with divers Hereditaments by his Letters Patents by authority of the same never to be dismembred or sold away they therefore pray the King to resume and sieze and to unite again to the said Dutchy such Lands as were sold away by Prince Edward King Richard or by the King himself The same Petition was answered in effect following It is accorded by the King and Lords that the Prince by the advice of his Councell shall have his scire facias or other his best means of recovery wherein shall be allowed no protection or praying in ayde of the King unless it be for Sir Iohn Cornwall and Elizabeth his wife late wife of Iohn Holland late Earl of Huntington and for such persons to whom the King is bound by warrantie and thereby to render in value all such cases the Prince shall sue to the King 24. The Commons do amend the Commission for the arraying or mustering of men and watching of the Beacons and pray the King that from thenceforth there should no other forme thereof be made whereto the King with the assent of the Lords after consultation therein had with the Judges of the Realm granted 25. The forme and President of the same Commission 26. At the request of the Commons certain Lords especially appointed agreed on the Articles ensuing First that all strangers taking part with the Anti-pope be not about the Kings person but do avoyd the Realm 27. That other strangers Catholicks as those of Dutchland be appointed to remain upon such Frontiers within the Realm where Garrisons are 28. That all French persons Brittains Lombards Italians and Bavarians whatsoever may be removed out of the House of the King and Queen except the Queens Daughters Maria St. Miches Alder and Iohn Purian and their Wives 29 That no VVelchman be about the Kings person 30. All which Articles on Thursday the one and twentieth of February the King by assent of the Lords established in full Parliament gave in full charge to his chief Officers of Houshold there named to put the same in execution who at Supper then following did the same 31. After which for more comfort of the Queen and her Daughters the King by the assent of the Lords established in full Parliament assigned to the Queen besides the persons aforenamed two Knights a Damosell two Chamborers one Mistress two Esquires one Nurse and one Chamborer for the Queens Daughters and a Messenger to go between at certain times 32. The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Act of Parliament the Commission at large granted that certain Revenues and Custome there expressed and amounting to the sum of 10100 l. should be yearly payd to the Treasurer of his House for the charges of the same his House In which grant amongst other things it appeareth that the profits of the Hamper in the Chancery at this time was onely worth 2000 l. per Annum 33. On Saturday the first day of March the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared to all the Lords in the Kings presence that the Kings will was that the Common Laws of the Realm should by no means be delayed that the Lords should take order for the Kings expences of Houshold and that there should be appointed certain Treasurers of the Wars who should imploy what was granted to the VVar onely whereto the King agreed and the Commons also 34. It is enacted that the Prior of Okeborne Proctor of the Abbey of Fishcamp in Normandie and all others Priors Coventuall should remain in England for that they were Catholicks and that all religious persons borne French should depart the Realm and English put in their places 35. The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared openly in the Parliament that where there came on his head a Debt in the Exchecquer of 200 l. while Sir Roger Welden was Treasurer of England in the time of King Richard he protested that he owed no such debt and prayed that the same his Protestation might be entred 36. At the request of the Commons it was enacted that if War should happen between the King and the French and the Flemmings that then the Kings Councell should have power to remove the Staple from Callice to what place they thought best and that no Patent should be granted to carry any of the said Marchandâ—ze to any other place Vide post tit 55. 37. The King at the sundry requests of the Councell doth name and appoint as there doth appear certain Bishops Lords and others to be of his great continuall Councell 38. â—or that the Sheriffs of Rutland had returned one William Ondeby for Knight for the same Shire and not Thomas de Thorpe who was chosen he was commanded to amend the same returne by returning Thomas Thorpe and further was committed to the Fleet and to Fine and Ransome at the Kings pâ—easure 39. At the request of
Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at COVENTRY the sixt day of October in the sixt year of the Raign of King HENRY the Fourth 1 ON Monday the 6. of October in the great Chamber within the Priorie of Coventrie therefore appointed and hanged the Bishop of Lincolnâ— the Kings brother Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of that assemblie that first the holy Church all persons and all Corporations should enjoy their liberties 2 He then took for his Theam terraeâ— upon which he learnedly discoursed how for the safetie of the Realm as well within as without and namely for the repressing of the Welch rebels for resisting Enemies of France and Brittain who daily reenforced themselves for the Invasion of the Realm and subversion of the estate for the observing of Peace and ministration of Justice the King had called the wise of the Realm by them to be counselled 3 He further sheweth how by the last Parliament was no sufficient remedie provided for the quailing of the Welch neither competent relief granted for the performance of so great exploits and â—or that the French had determined war with England and had then invaded the Dominion of Guienne they should not so much marvell at the sudden calling of this Parliament as they ought most speedily to determine for the avoiding of those so great mischiefs and imminent perils wherefore he willeth the Commons to chose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker 4 Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5 Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles 6 Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above 7 Tryars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above 8 On Tuesday the 7. of October the Commons presented unto the King Sir William Sturmey to be their Speaker who made the Common Protestation thereupon the Chancellor willed the Commons chiefly to consider how the King might best be relieved 9 On the 8 th day of November the Commons by the assent of the Lords granted unto the King two Desmes and two Fifteens the subsidy of Woolls Wooll-fels and Skins viz. of denizens for every sack of Wooll 43 s. 4 d. of every 240. Wooll-fels 43 s. 4 d. and for every last of Skins 5 l. of aliens 10 s. more in every parricular for two years and 3 s. of every Tun of Wine passing and repassing the Realm and 12 d. on every pound of Merchandize on condition the same should not be imployed but only to the maintenance of Wars and defence of the Realm according to the order there taken by the oversight of the Lord Furnivall and Sir Iohn Pelham Knights Treasurers appointed for the Wars 10 The same day the Lord Furnivall and Sir Iohn were sworn before the King and Lords in Parliament to execute their Offices according to the grant 11 Where sundrie Bishops Lords and others appointed to lend unto the King certain sums of money towards the rescuing of the Lord of Coytife who was besieged in his Castel by the rebels in Wales the King appointed by Parliament that such persons as so should lend should be repayed of the first payments of the subsidy then granted 12 On Saturday the 26. of October the Commons came before the King and Lords in full Parliament where they in recommending the Lords Iohn and Humphery the Kings Sons prayen the King to advance them to honourable Estates and Livings they also pray the King to remember the Duke of Yorks service in Guienne and elsewhere so as he might therefore be payed his due Fees behind They make the like request for the Earl of Somerset and Sir Thomas Beauford his brother They finally beseech the King to render to Richard Duke of Yorks brother certain Jewels to the valew of 4000 l. which were in the hands of King Richard the second 13 They make like request as is above for the rescue of the Lord Coytife besieged by the Welch in the Castle of Coytife Certain Petitions of the Commons FIrst that all such hereditaments liberties and Customes as were to the Crown in 40. E. 3. and since by any means granted to be resumed into the Kings hands for ever provided that all Towns shall enjoy their liberties except also the Lands of such as were forejudged in the 11 th Richard second and sold away 15 That all Tuns and Pipes of Wine granted to any person by the King or any his Progenitors be also resumed 16 That the Queen may be endowed of all such hereditaments as Anne the late Queen was in whose hands soever the same be and by what grant soever 17 That all grants of Edward third or any his Progenitors and before the said 40 th year may be confirmed by Parliament 18 That all Farmers to the King by any like grants may enjoy the same their Farms giving as much therefore as others will 19 That no man hereby be restrained of any warrant granted to build any Castle or Caslet or to inclose any Park 20 The King maketh answer that he will execute their requests so far forth as by the Law and his Prerogative he may do and for that the Lands of the Crown in An. 40 E. 3. were not certainly known he would appoint certain Commissioners to enquire and execute the same 21 It is enacted that for one whole year the King shall take the profits of all Annuities Fees or wages granted by King R. 2. or the King now except certain of the Chief Officers there named Justices Barons of the Exchecquer and other Officers of any his Courts whatsoever 22 And also that the King for the like term shall enjoy the like profits of all hereditaments granted as is above except such as are granted to the Queen or any of the Kings Sons and of such as have their grants by Parliament 23 That Proclamation be made that all such as have any Patents granted since 40. E. 3. of any Annuall valew for life or years do on pain of forfeiting the same bring them in by a day there prescribed to the end that such as deserve the same may have continuance and the rest revoked 24 Upon the Petition of Henrei Prince of Wales it was enacted by the Lords that the said Prince should have due payment made of 1000. Marks granted to him for the keeping of certain men at Arms for the defence of Wales 25 Where the King granted to Henry the Son of Iohn Earl of Somerset and to the heirs males of his body begotten 1000. Marks out of the Exchecquer now at the Petition of
The King thereof will be advised The Citizens of Bristow and Glocester pray that they may passe the River of Severn with any their Merchandise in Drags and Boats paying their due Customes without any new Taxes to be levied by the men of Beaudley As heretofore it hath been That all Officers of Wales do arrest the next Cousins of all Rebels Theeves or Evil Doers of the Welch untill these Malefactors do yeeld their selves for that they by such kinsmen are only supported The King will thereof be advised The Clerks and Attornies of both the Benches pray the Revocation of a Statute made in the 11 H. 4. tit 6. Which motion approvâ—th that the same was an Act notwithstanding the respectuatur mentioned in the said year of 11. quod nota The Justâ—ces of both the Benches shall herein consult and of many other mischiefs in their said Courts between this and next Parliament and thereof make their Report Anno Primo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Charissimo Fratri Tho. Duci Clarentiae Com. Albemertiae apud Leicestriam vicessimo nono die Ianuarii Teste Rege apud Westm. primo die Decembris EDwardo Duci Eborum Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundell Ricardo Com. Westmerland Edwardo Com. Marchiae Ricardo Com. Warr. Tho. Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Marescallo Michael de la Pool Com. Suff. Ricardo Com. Oxoniae Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Heâ—â— le Scroop de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitz-Hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berkley de Berkley Johanni de Welles Radulpho Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystockâ— Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland Roberto de Harrington Roberto de Willoughbie Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonere Reginal Gray de Ruthin Petro de Malo lacu Tho. Camois Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Willielmo de Botreaux Johanni Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Johanni Clifford Johanni Talbot de Halmeshyre Noe Lord Warden Prorogatum Parliamentum de Leicest de vicesimo nono die Januarii usque ad ultimum Aprilis ibidem tenend ut ante in omnibus Rex c. Tho. fratri Duci Clarentiae c. apud Leicestriam ultimo die Aprilis Teste Rege apud Leicestriam vicessimo nono Januarii numerus Ordo Nobilium in omnibus ut ante The Parliament holden at Westminster in the third week of Easter in the first year of King Henry the Fifth ON Monday the fifteenth day of May and the Monday in the third Week of Easter the King sitting in his chair of Estate then attending on him the Bishops Lords and Commons the Bishop of Winchester being the Kings uncle and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement uttered the cause of the same Parliament namely that the Church and all persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberties and also for that he desired to consult with them And hereupon he took for his proposition ante omnem actum consilium stabilire and so by many notable authorities shewed how that the King much desired to hear their good advise and Counsell First for the competent supportation of his Royall estate Secondly for the due execution of the good laws and good governance of the Realm Thirdly for the cherishing of such strangers as were his Allyes and for repressing his enemies and for the better atchieving of those weighty affairs by their ripe consultations he willed the Commons to assemble themselves to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King accordingly Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Thursday the eighteenth day of May the Commons came before the King and Lords and presented for their Speaker William Stourton who having no allowance of his disabilitie required the Common protestation which was granted On Monday the twenty second of May the Commons came before the King where the Speaker declared before him that in the time of his Father many fair promises were made for due observation of lawes but that no execution ensued wherefore he prayed the King the better to provide therefore and namely to see due correction of the late Ryot committed at Cirencester against the Abbot therein To the which the Speaker on the Kings behalf was required to exhibite the same in writing to the end the King might be the better provided On Thursday the twenty fifth of May Iohn Dorewood and others sent by the Commons delivered to the King a Schedule for provision to be made in form following viz. Touching Ireland the Marches of Wales of Scotland and of Callice touching the Dutchy of Guyenne the safe keeping of the seas the Navy of England and governance and due observance and for sure provision to be made in form following for the repulse of the enemy The same day the said Iohn on the behalf of the Commons prayed that the protestation of the said William Stourton might be entred of Record which was granted On Satturday the third day of Iune the Commons came before the King and Lords and for that the aforesaid William by grievous sicknesse could by no means attend to be Speaker they presented the aforesaid Iohn who made the Common Excuse and the Common protestation the one refused and the other allowed Of Annuities to be payed to sundry persons by Letters Patents it was enacted by the whole assent that the King towards the supportation of his charges should yearly receive 10000 l. and of the rest they should be payed according to the rate Where King H. 4. had given by his last Will all his goods and chattels to the payment of his debts and to the payment of certain Legacies and of the same Will made Executors Henry Archbishop of York Thomas Bishop of Durham Iohn Pelham Robert Waterton and Iohn Laventhorp and thereof ordained Overseers the King and Archbishop of Canterbury for that the said goods were not able to accomplish the same the Executors refused the execution of the Will whereupon the Archbishop of Canterbury as Ordinary ought to have the Administration of the said goods and Chattels Wherefore to the end those goods should not be set to common sale considering that the same amounted to 25000. marks the King kept the goods and granted to the said Executors out of the Wardrobe to be paid the said summ of 25000. Marks in three years to dispose the same goods accordingly upon accompt and further than the same dischargeth the same
Executors of all executions growing by the same will Note the conveyance for the same is hardly elsewhere to be found The Commons prayen that the Statute made in Anno 5 H. 4. tit for the avoiding of Aliens might be observed whereto the King granteth saving his Prerogative Reice ap Thomas a Welshman prayeth that he to all intents might be made a loyal Liegeman notwithstanding the Statute made 2 H. 4. tit the which the King granteth The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the like Subsidy of Staple ware Tonnage and Poundage for 4. years as in 13 H. 4. tit 10. upon sundry conditions A general Pardon of sundry offences but nothing of life or member conditionally that their pardons were sued out by a day Upon the Petition of Gunwardby and others touching the erroneous Judgement given in the Kings Bench on the behalf of Iohn Windsor and sundry others in an Assize for certain lands in Rampton Cottenham Westwick Hekington Longestanton and Willingham in the County of Cambridge and upon the disclosing of the Errors aforesaid a Scire facias was granted to the said Gunwardby to warn the said Windsor and others to appear at the next Parliament to hear the Record and processe Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the election of Knights and Burgesses cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching the removing of Stanks Kiddles c. cap. 2. agreeth with the record It is enacted that all the Statutes made against Provisors from Rome shall be observed A large complaint and prayer to redresse the manifold oppressions of the Ordinaries for probate of Testaments and such like If the Bishops upon the Kings charge to them given do not redresse the same the King will then doe it The like is made against Ordinaries for sessing Penance pecuniary upon Lechery c. Answered as before The like motion and answer is made as in Anno 13 H. 4. tit 31. The Knights and Burgesses being summoned to a Parliament the Commons pray for Costs because nothing was done at the Parliament 14 H. 4. which as it seems took no effect require allowance If upon view of the Kings Records any the like presidents may be found allowance of their fees shall be made The print touching forging of Deeds cap. 3. doth not fully agree with the record The print touching Under-sheriffs cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching additions in Writs of Exigent cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print forbidding the tryal of Asaph in Wales cap. 6. agreeth with the record That every Juror in all Inquisitions be sworn truly to say whether he received or that any thing was received to his use for proceeding thereof and that upon conviction by his Oath he may be tryed The print touching Priors Aliens French cap. 7. agreeth with the record That all grounds aforesaid by the perambulations of E. 3. may be utterly disforrested Such as be grieved against the Charters of the Forest upon complaint shall be heard A Declaration for surcharging of Sheriffs and prayer that they may be allowed upon their Oaths in the Exchequer Upon the Sheriffs comming before the Council and Barons of the Exchequer they shall finde remedy That no Barge Ship Boat or other vessel going on any river be taken for a Deodand if any person happily falling thereout be drowned The King will be thereof advised Richard Marlow and others prayen that where Iohn Calvile Captain of certain ships had taken two great Hulkes fully fraighted lying at Southampton c. suspecting to belong to the French that those ships might not be delivered without Inquisition and restitution The King will appoint certain Commissioners to hear and determine the same It is enacted that all Aliens do depart the Realm and that all such Merchants Aliens as do remain be under English hoasts on pain of imprisonment at the Kings will It is enacted that all the livings of Priors Aliens except such as be in tit 32. shall be seized into the Kings hands The print touching Irish begging Priests called Chamber-Deacons and other Irish cap. 8. agreeth with the record That Merchants may freely transport and bring into the Realm their goods or Arras and all other Merchandise except Merchandise of the Staple and the same sell at their pleasure to all men except to Merchants of Ieane paying their due Customes The King will thereof be advised The print touching the universall measure of Corn cap. 9. agreeth with the record Anno Secundo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Tho. Duci Clarentiae Com. Albemerciae fratri suo c. apud Westm. die Lunae post Octabis Sancti Martini Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo sexto die Septembris hoc Parliamentum postea prorogatum fuit usque Leicestriam JOhan Duci Bedfordiae Com. de Kendall Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae Com. de Pembrook Edwardo Duci Eborum Ricardo Com. Cantabrigiae Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Tho. Com. Arundell Edwardo Com. Marchiae Ricardo de Bello campo Com. VVarr Ricardo de Vere Com. Oxoniae Tho. Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Marescallo Tho. Com. Dorset Michael de la Pool Com. Suff. Radulpho Nevil Com. VVestmerland Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Hen. de Scroop de Masham Hen. Fitz-hugh VVill. de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho Morley Hugo Burnell Tho. Berkley de Berkley Johanni de VVelles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Roberto de Harrington Roberto de VVilloughbie Johanni Lovell de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginal Gray de Ruthine Petro de molo lacu VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Camois VVillielmo de Botreaux Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Johanni Clifford Johanni Talbot de Furnivall Noe Lord VVarden The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday in the Octaves of S. Martine in the second year of King Henry the Fifth ON the same Monday the King sitting in his chair of Estateâ— in the Chamber de pinct within his palace of Westminster the Bishop of Winchester the Kings Uncle and Chancelloâ— of England by the Kings commandement declared before him the Lords and Commons how that the King would that the Church and all Persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberties He after sheweth that the King endeavoured not onely well to govern within the Realm but also enforced himself to recover his due inheritance belonging to the Crown of long time withholden the which quarrell he would prosecute even unto death and for the attempting of so weighty an exploit required good provision
and licence to buy the same pray the confirmation of those their Letters Patents which is granted Lewes Iohn a Welshman is enabled to be a Liege Englishman notwithstanding the Statute 2 H. 4. tit 77. The like grant by common assent is made to Iohn Mountgomerie Esquire The like is granted to Iohn Steward Esquire It is enacted by the whole consent that all the Manor and other hereditaments within the Kings Dominions which descended or ought to descend to the King after the death of Dame Mary one of the daughters and heirs of Humfrey le Bohun late Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England as Sonne and heir of the said Dame Mary should be dissevered from the Crown of England and be annexed to the Dutchy of Lancaster to be of the same nature as by the Kings Letters Patents may fully appear In which Grant you may see those Liberties belonging to the Dutchie of Lancaster Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the Church all persons and Corporations shall enjoy their Liberties That the Fees of Knights coming to the Parliament for the Countie of Kent may generally be levied of all persons holding by Knights Service within the County and not particularly of certain in the Guddable of Kent except of Bishops and Lords who came to the Parliament The Statute therefore made shall be executed The like motion and answer by the Weavers of London as in the 7. and 8. H. 4. tit 136. Drue Barentyne and others of London pray that the Letters of Mart or Reprisal granted by the King against the goods of the Merchants of Ieane may be confirmed The which the King granteth and thereby provideth for the safe keeping and well ordering of the said goods A Motion that the English Merchants may use the Iermanoes and other Italians touching the Letters of Mart aforesaid in such wise as they shall use the English The King will therein write to the Italians and to the rest will be advised The print touching Justices of Peace cap. 1. wanteth of the record these words following remaining within the same Counties which should be annexed to the words of the print of the Kings Council and these words in their Offices and Sessions to be annexed to the Justices of Peace within the Dutchie of Lancaster The print touching the wages of Priests cap. 2. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form besides that the record is 37 E. 3. where the print is 36. which note the print being therein the truer The Print touching Enquests cap. 3. agreeth with the record to these words so that from the beginning of which words to the end thereof there is no mention made in the record quod nota That the straight cloaths called the Dosens of Devonshire and Cornwall may pay Cocket Customes after the rate of broad Cloathes The King will thereof be advised The print touching the gilding of Goldsmiths of London cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the Treasons and Felonies of Welshmen cap. 5. agreeth with the record At the request of the Mayor and Burgesses of Southampton who payed to the King 200 l. fee farm and 40 l. yearly to two Priors Aliens the King for 10. yeares releaseth to them 140 Marks yearly and further giveth license to them to purchase lands to the yearly value of one hundred pounds The print touching the Staple cap. 6. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form Anno Tertio Henrici Quinti Rex c. dilecto consanguineo c. Radulpho Com. Westmerland c. apud Westm. die Lunae post festum Sancti Lucae Evangel Teste Iohanne Duce Bedfordiae Custode Angliae apud Westm. duodecimo Augusti EDwardo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Will de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Welles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Petro de Malo lacu Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbott Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Prorogatio Parliamenti à die Lunae post festum Sancti Lucae usque diem Lunae post festum Omnium Sanctorum apud Westm. tenend Rex c. dilecto c. Radulpho Nevill Com. Westmerland c. apud Westm. vicesimo nono die Septembris Teste Iohanne Duce Bedford c. THo Com. Arundell Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Will. de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Welles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latymer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbott Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Ricardo Gray de Codonore Rex c Charissimo fratri suo Tho. Duci Clarentiae c. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Martii Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo primo die Ianuarii IOhanni Duci Bedford fratri Regis Humfrido Duci Gloucest fratri Regis Radulpho Com. Westmerland Consangu suo Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Edwardo Com. Marchiae Johanni Com. Marescallo Tho. Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxoniae Magistro Tho. de la VVar. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de VVelles Radulpho Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland Radulpho de Harrington Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginal Gray de Ruthine Tho. Camois VVillielmo Botreaux Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbott Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Johanni Clifford The Parliament holden at VVestminster the sixteenth day of March in the third year of King Henry the Fifth ON the same sixteenth day the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within his Palace of Westminster the Bishop of Winchester the Kings Uncle and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared that the Kings will was that the Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberty He then shewed the cause of the same Parliament and took for his Theame these words Vobis viam on which words he made a notable declaration affirming amongst the rest that a thing well begun and continued with diligence could not but come to good end according to the saying dimidium facti qui benè caepit habet The beginning he applyed to the attempt of the King by entring into France for the recovery of the same his due Patrimony The continuance he applyed to the Kings successe by obtaining Harslew upon his siege and by winning a battel of
during such time as they shall serve the King may have 3 s. 4 d. for every Tonne over and above his fraight according to the Custome The King herein will do according to reason The print for avoiding out of the Realm cap. 3. agreeth with the record That all men may go towards the parts of Island there freely to fish as they have used The King will be advised That every of the Kings Justices of either Bench Chief Baron and the Kings Serjeants may have sufficient power to record Attourneys in any of the Kings Courts whatsoever As heretofore it hath been it shall be The print that every Incumbent shall enjoy his Benefice notwithstanding provision from Rome cap. 4. agreeth with the record That all the Ordinaries throughout the Realm may by a day enquire and certifie into the Chancery the foundations of Hospitalls with the circumstances to the end that redresse may be therein made The Statute made at Leicester Anno 2. H. 5. shall be observed That against all men indicted in the Kings Bench except such as be of the same shire where the Bench is there may be awarded three Capias fifteen dayes between before the Exigent awarded The King will be advised That all the Kings Purveyors do take eight bushels of Corn only to the quarter striked and that they take up no provision in the market without the good will of the party and ready pay The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That some remedy may be sound to the comfort of the poor Clergy in a manner wasted for that the Universities swarmed with new learning by reason of the Statute of Provisors which caused the old saith to be neglected At the Kings motion the Bishops have promised to provide remedy therein The print that washing of money c. cap. 6. agreeth with the record That the scape of any prisoner for counterfeiting washing or clipping of money may be 100 l. The pain shall be arbitrable as heretofore The print touching Enquiries for Treason for Coinage cap. 7. agreeth with the record The Prior and Covent of St. Mary Magdalen of Tortington next Arundel desire remedy for that the said Earl of Arundel had encroached from them the Mannor of Clay and sundry other hereditaments in the County of Sussex there particularly named It is answered as before tit 28. Robert Penney and Ioane his wife as in the right of Ioane Cosen and heir of Giles Norman complain for that Sir Thomas Skelton Knight had by subtil means in an Assize recovered against them the Manors of Westadderleigh and Sherle in Southampton and Soulfield Loveras in the County of Wilts they therefore pray remedy The Plaintiffs shall have remedy by the King and such others as he shall call to him Iohn Brampton of Beverley Merchant complaineth of Iohn Hayton and others for lying in wait to murder him and prayeth writs out of the Chancery of the Peace which were granted That all writs of Subpoena and Certis de causis going out of the Chancery and Exchequer may be controlled and not granted of matters determinable at the Common Law on pain that the Plaintiff doe pay by way of debt to the Defendant 40 l. The King will be advised The print touching Fees of Ordinaries for probate of Testaments cap. 8. agreeth with the record At the request of Henry Archbishop of York the King by the whole assent confirmeth to him all the liberties of his Church with this Clause Licet and further granteth and confirmeth to him that he and his Officers may hold the Sheriffs turn within the Town of Beverley and Rippon and there hear and determine and punish all manner of Felonies as Justices of the Peace notwithstanding any liberties granted to the Town of Beverley to the contrary the which therein are repealed Iohn Sharpe Owner of a Ship called the Christopher of Hull complaining sheweth how that the same Christopher at Burdeaux was appointed to be one of the Admirals of the English Navy then bound for England and how that all the English Masters were sworn before the Chief Officers of Burdeaux not to depart or leave the said Admiral until they came to England and how by doing the contrary the said Ship fully fraighted was taken by the enemy for the which ship and goods he requireth recompence of all the other ships The Chancellor by the advice of three of the Justices shall have power to take order therein Anno Quarto Henrici Quinti Rex c. Charissimo fratri suo Tho. Duci Clarentiae c. apud West decimo nono die Octobris Teste Rege apud Sandwich Tertio die Septembris IOhanni Duci Bedfordiae Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae Edw. Courtney Com. Devon Johanni Com. Arundel Tho. Com. Dorset Hen. Com. Northumb. Radulpho Nevill Com. Westmerland Edwardo Com. Marchiae Ricardo Com. Warr. Ricardo Com. Oxoniae Tho. Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Marescallo Willielmo de Clinton Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Welles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland Roberto de Harrington Roberto de Willoughbie Richo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois VVillo Botreaux Johanni Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Johanni Clifford Johan Talbot Dom. de Furnival The Parliament holden at Westminster the nineteenth day of October in the fourth year of King Henry the Fifth ON the said nineteenth day the King sitting in his Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within his Palace of Westminster the Bishop of Winchester the Kings Uncle and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared That the Kings will was that the Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberties After which he published the cause of the Parliament taking for his ground operam detis ut quieti sitis Upon which words amongst others he alledgeth that as God in six dayes created all the world and rested the seventh day so the King according to his oath at his Coronation had by his great travell by five his former Parliaments sought the establishing of good laws upright governance at home and foreign peace with the enemy He further sheweth that the French refused not only reasonable peace but also to render to him his prisoners or ransomes for such as were taken at the battel of Agin-court whereby the King was driven to his last hopes and refuge which was by dint of sword to seek his own
And so alledging Bella faciamus ut pacem habeamus quia finis belli pax est He sheweth that the King meant to use their Counsell and therefore called the Commons to choose and to present their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the third day of the Parliament the Commons coming before the King and Lords presented Roger Flower to be their Speaker who made the common protestation and the same allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King two whole Desmes and two fifteens to be levied of the Laity It is enacted that all such persons as shall before lend mony to the King shall freely have Letters Patents to be payed of the first mony coming of the subsidie aforesaid All which to perform if an end should come to the King the Dukes of Clarence Bedford and Gloucester for every of their selves faithfully promised to accomplish The names of certain Bishops and other Lords who subscribed to the Articles aforesaid A generall pardon granted by the King nothing touching life or losse of member On Wednesday the eighteenth of November being the last day of the Parliament the King sitting in his Royall Estate in full Parliament created Thomas Beauford Earl of Dorset to be Earl of Exeter after which the King commandeth him to sit in Parliament according to his estate A League and Alliance between the King his heirs and succesors Kings of England and Sigismond King of the Romans his heirs and successors Kings of the Romans are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament Note the Instrument of Alliance for the same is long and very effectuall Robert Whittington Esq and Ony his son complaining shew how that certain of the servants of Richard Old-castle Esq and the borderers of Wales by durance of imprisonment enforced the said Robert to release to the said Richard and Walter Hakelnyt Esq all manner of Actions for all which they prayen remedy The Kings Councell shall have power to call the parties before them and to end the same Iohn de Holland son of Iohn de Holland Earl of Huntington prayeth to be restored in bloud 2. H. 4. son of E. his wife to the said Iohn his father and to Richard his eldest brother who died without issue and to all the entailed lands of Iohn the Father as well of the Dutchy of Cornwall as otherwise except certain Mannors by name parcell of the said Dutchy so as he may freely enter into them The King enableth him in bloud according to his Petition and to all the intailed lands so as he first prove the same in the Chancery except as before and except all other lands parcell of the said Dutchy saving the fee simple lands to the King so as he do sue a Scire facias against the said Tenants for such whereof he should be in suit Iohn Allen and others Merchants of Coventry prayen restitution of 600 marks of old coin put into the hands of Richard Garmer late Master of the Mint within the Tower of London to be newly coined for that all the goods of the said Richard were seised to the Kings use by the Earl of Arundell Treasurer of England Upon proof hereof before the Councell they shall see the same payed so farr as the goods will extend William Clifford Constable of Bourdeaux complaining sheweth how that he had gotten the Town and Castle Rewle in Guyenne wherein he was besieged and could not keep the same without some succours the which he prayeth The King will accomplish the same with opportunity A motion is made that the suit hanging in the Court of Rome and in the Councell of Constance between Roger Frank and Iohn de Rippon touching the Abbey of Founteynes being very tedious may be ended The King will addresse his Letters to the Ambassadors at Constance to sollicite the end David Howell of Pembrook prayeth a pardon for all Treasons Felonies and Trespasses The King will be advised The print touching Irish Bishops c. cap. 6. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the great Charter c. cap. 1. agreeth with record The print touching allowance of Sheriffs cap. 2. having these words is of extracts therein swarveth from the record quod nota The print touching Patent-makers cap. 3. agreeth with the record The King releaseth to Iohn Tutburie the Customes of certain Wines The print touching servants wages cap. 4. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 31. That none of the Kings Subjects be barred of their due debtsâ— or suits for the same by colour of protection granted to any Prior Alien but during such time as they shall serve the King beyond the seas The Prerogative and Common lawes shall be maintained The print touching Merchants Aliens cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching the free pardon c. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching Peace-breakers and Letters of Mart cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Henrici Quinti Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Thomae Duci Exon. salt c. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Novembris Teste Iohanne Duce Bedford Custode Angliae apud VVestm quinto die Octobris CHariss Consang suo Hen. de Percie Com. Northumberland Radulpho Nevill Com. Westmerland Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois Willielmo Botreaux Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of November in the fifth year of King Henry the Fifth ON the sixteenth day of November in the presence of the puissant Prince Iohn Duke of Bedford Brother and Lieutenant to the King and Warden of England sitting in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster the Bishop of Durham the Chancellor of England by his commandement in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared that the Kings will was that the Church and all Estates should enjoy their liberties He then took for his Theam Confortamini viriliter agite et gloriosi eritis Upon which words he shewed what great comfort ought to have been considering that the King in the life of his
Flower Esquire to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed All Writs Commissions and Dependants of the same made by the assembly of the Council touching this Parliament are confirmed by authority of the same Thomas Bishop of Durham Chancellor of England to the late King H. 5. in the presence of the Duke of Gloucester and other Lords in the Castle of Windsor delivered and left with the King the great Golden Seal of the realm of England whereof he willed them to be witnesses and that the same may be enrolled The Bishop of London late Chancellor of the Dutchie of Normandy delivered the same Seal of that Dutchy at Rome to the Duke of Bedford who had the governance of the same and also in the presence as is aforesaid at Windsor the great Seal of England which King H. 5. gave to him to keep and prayeth to be discharged of the same by Act of Parliament and so was It is enacted that the Kings stile shall be changed and that accordingly there might be graven upon all his Seals as followeth Henricus Rex Franciae Angliae Dominus Hiberniae To satisfie the Commons request the Duke of Gloucester declared to them that the King had appointed the Bishop of Durham to be his Chancellor William Rindroffe to be Treasurer of England and Iohn Stafford to be keeper of the Privy Seal of all which offices their Patents are made and confirmed by Parliament It is enacted that all Estates shall have their Liberties confirmed being not revoked without these words Concedimus to be in any of the said affirmations Where King H. 5. made Henry Lord Fitz-hugh Walter Hungerâ—ord Walter Beauchampe Lewis Robsart William Porter Robert Babthorpe Iohn Woodhowse and Iohn Leventhorpe Esquires the Executors of his VVill and Testament the King granteth to them 40000 l. Marks for the performance of the same VVill 19 Marks was due to the Executors of H. 4. by oversight of the overseers of the same VVill of the Duke of Gloucester and others Lords there named The schedule thereto annexed conteineth the Kings Letters Patents in form aforesaid The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the like Subsidie of Staple-ware Tonnage and Poundage as formerly for two yeares ensuing It is enacted that all such as were imprisoned in any of the Kings Gaoles for Heresie or Lollardie should be delivered to the Ordinary of the same place to be punished It is enacted that all such Petitions as are not ended in this Parliament shall be committed to the Council to be determined according to their discretion The King by authority of Parliament granteth to the Duke of Gloucester the office of Chamberlain of England with all the profits at the Kings pleasure In like form the King granteth to the said Duke the office of Constable of England The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament appointeth Iohn Duke of Bedford Protector and Defender of the Realm and Church of England and Chief Counsellor of the King so long as the said Duke then being beyond the Seas should remain in England and in his absence only the Duke of Gloucester to supply the said office the which Duke of Gloucester in full Parliament took upon him the burthen aforesaid with protestation that the same should not redound to the prejudice of the Duke of Bedford It is enacted upon the Kings Letters Patents that the Protectors aforesaid shall during the Kings minority dispose of all the offices of the Forests Keepers of Parkes and VVarrens and all Benefices of the Kings gift being above the value of 20 Marks to continue during their lives Certain Bishops Lords and others are named to be Counsellors assisting to the Governance aforesaid The which Counsellors took upon them in form followingâ— viz. That all Justices of Peace Sheriffs Escheators Customers Comptrollers Weighers Searchers and such other Officers may be made be their advice and denomination That these Counsellors may make the most of all manner of VVards Marriages Farmes and other Casualties of the Crown That nothing be enacted by Council but by six or more at the least and in all great causes by all or the most and wherein the King is to be conferred withall that nothing be therein done without the assents of the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester That the Treasurer of England and the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer may for every of them have a key to the Kings Receipt so as they be sworn before the Councell to make none privy thereto other than the Councell That the Clarks of the Councell may be sworn duely to keep the names of the Councell who do sit and truly to enact all things done by them The which Articles with the proviso ensuing were enacted by assent provided alwayes that such officers as have the same for life or otherwise may appoint Deputies any of the Articles notwithstanding Anne Countesse of Stafford daughter and heir of Ellinor one of the daughters and heirs of Humphry de Bohun late Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England reciteth a partition made between King H. 5. and her of the inheritance of the said Earl in the ninth of his reign at what time certain Knights fees in grosse were not parted whereof she now prayeth remedy and concerning certain members of the Castle of Brecknock in Wales The Kings Councell shall have power by authority of Parliament to take order herein Bartholomew Goldbeator Master of the Mint within the Tower requireth larger Commission touching the Coynage and Exchange of mony in the said Tower albeit the King meaneth that no Minter should hold the Exchange yet to the next Parliament liketh that the said Bartholomew should keep the Exchange so he taketh not above three half pence for the Exchange of a Noble The print cap. 4. c. agreeth with 2. H. 6. tit 11. The print touching the wages of Captains cap. 5. agreeth with the record The like Act is made touching Exchangers to Rome as in 9. H. 6. tit 24. It is enacted that Thomas Chawcer Chief Butler to the King shall enjoy the said office during his life according to the Letters Patents thereof made to him by Hing H. 4. In consideration that the Prior and Covent of â—nychester otherwise called Prior Ecclesiae Herodosiae surrendred unto the King for ever the Common of pasture for forty oxen and kine and twenty hoggs with the increase within the Kings Parkes of Clarindon and Wilts and the right of one called a Stickler who was to cut wood daily for them within the said Park the King granteth to them by the
of Decemb. until the Quindene of St. Hillary then ensuing The like power is given to the Kings Council for 24000 l. as in 4 H. 6. tit 17. The Commons grant to the King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords Tonnage and Poundage for two years of every Parish Church within the realm 6 s. 8 d. for every twenty Nobles in value and 6 s. 8 d. of every person that holdeth immediately by a Knights fee or according to the rate The King by common consent of Parliament confirmeth to Henry Archishop of Canterbury the Letters Patents made by King H. 5. to the said Archbishop of three acres of land within the Town of Higham Ferres parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster erected into a Chauntry by the said Archbishop and of the Priory of Moresey an Alien being parcel of the Abbey of St. Andreon in Normandy The King by common assent granteth by his Letters Patents to Thomas de Roos son and heir to Iohn late Lord de Roos an especial livery of all his hereditaments The King by his Letters Patents confirmed granteth that the Duke of Gloucester and Earl Thomas of Salisbury and their heirs and executors should be discharged of certain Jewels which King H. 5. laid to them in gage and of all Accompts due to the King Iohn Multon and Henry Heart Executors of the last Will and Testament of Iohn Harris of Cambridge prayen remedy against one Iohn Colls their Executor for misusing himself the which matter is committed to the Chancellor to be ended The Commons require the King to write to the Pope for the Purgation of the Archbishop of Canterbury who was cited to Rome as one that had wrought against the Pope in this realm The King granteth by his Letters Patents to Iohn Merbury Esq 40 Marks out of the profits of the County of Gloucester during his life in consideration that the said Iohn had so much out of the Manor of Isleworth in Midd. given to the Nuns of Sion At the Petition of certain men there named to whom King H. 4. by Debentaries did owe c. It is enacted that the said parties should be payed at the hands of the Executors of H. 4. All servants of the late H. the fifths houshold by especial name require to have pardons of all debts due by them to the said H. 5. the which is granted and confirmed David ap Thomas of Cardegan in Southwales Esq by his Petition is made a Denizen Iohn Sutton Knight hath the Kings Letters Patents of protection for one year The 3 day of May Humfrey Duke of Gloucester Protector and Defender of the Realm in full Parliament affirmed that he would not sit in the Parliament house before he understood what the power of the Protector was for as much as men speak diversly thereof After deliberations herein had by the Council and Lords the answer in the beginning it was declared unto the same Duke that he ought not to have been Protector notwithstanding to satisfie his desire it was granted that he should be Protector and have further power as in Anno 1 H. 6. tit 24 25. The which name of Protector or Defender importeth onely a personal duty of attendance to the actual defence of the realm against forein enemies and inward rebels and not any especial government as properly belongeth to Tutors Leiutenants Governours or Regents for if they had otherwise meant they then would have expressed more whereby in Council as Principal Counsellor he had preheminence but in Parliament he had no other place than as the Duke of Gloucester so as they wished him now to supply his place in Parliament and to be content with the power aforesaid for to other they would not grant The names of such Bishops and Lords and others are subscribed to the answer aforesaid The alteration and incorporation of the Abbesse and Nuns of Sion for that the erection was to have the same Corporation as well by Canons as by Nuns whereto Pope Martin the 5. would not agree that there should be two Capacities in one foundation whereto the Canons were exempted in title but not in deed so as they should serve securely It is enacted by the King Lords Temporal and Commons that no man should contract or marry himself to any Queen of England without the especial licence and assent of the King on pain to lose all his goods and lands The Bishops and Clergy agree to this Bill as farr forth as the same swarveth not from the Law of God and of the Church and so as the same importeth no deadly sin Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching Exigents out of the Kings Bench cap. 1. agreeth with the record That the Mayor and Officers of the Staple may in all pleas before them proceed to the end without any removing of the sameâ— according to the Law of Merchants albeit the same be against the Common Laws The King will be advised The print touching the arrayes in Assize cap. 2. agreeth with the record onely in the record is 8. dayes where the print is but 6. That the Statutes made touching Merchants Anno 5 H. 4. cap. 7 9. may be observed having thereto this adjunct that the Officer doe make fine and ransom at the Kings pleasure The King will be advised The like motion as in 4 H. 6. tit 34. The Chancellor shall grant such licences as have been used until the King be otherwise minded By the motion it appeared that the Kings Tenants could not ordinarily have granted a licence of Alienation unlesse he first shewed to the Council wherefore the same was made A motion against a certain tryal in Wales called a Rayth The King and Lords Merchers will take order therein That the Justices of the Peace may award the Capias and Exigents against the giver and wearer of liveries The Statute therefore made shall be observed That the Mayor and Keeper of London for the time being may have the execution of the Statute of Sewers touching the River of Thames Let them shew the bounds of their Liberty and they shall be answered The print touching Labourers cap. 3. agreeth with the record That the Statutes made in Anno 7 H. 5. cap. 1. may continue for 6. years with this adjunct that the outlawed in the said County of Lancaster may enjoy any benefit of sute in any other place other than in the said County and that they forfeit no goods by such outlawry out of the said County The King will be advised The print touching the election of Knights of the Shire cap. 4. agreeth with the
said Manor It is enacted that the Mayor of Northampton for the time being shall compell all Tenants as have any houses upon certain streets and places there named to * pay the same from time to time The office of the Baily of Winchelsey is granted to William Pope Esquire during his life It is enacted that all the Kings Council and other head Offices there named shall have yearly out of the Exchequer fees by way of reward there expressed Authority is given to the Kings Council to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for 50000 l. The print touching the Dutchesse of Clarence and other the Coheirs of the Earl of Kent cap. 11. agreeth with the record in effect but not in full form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the prorogation of Assize cap. 11. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 42. That all outlawries in Actions personal pronounced before the Statute of additions made 1 H. 5. may be pardoned The King will be advised The print touching days of payment to be given by English Merchants cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the affirmation of all Judgements against Owen Glendor cap. 3. agreeth with the record That in the writ of forging of false Deeds the Venire facias may be of both Counties as well where the land doth lye as where the writ is brought The King will be advised That the Statute made Anno 7 H. 6. tit 11. touching Denmark may be utterly void and revoked The King looketh to hear from his Ambassador there and in the mean time he will be advised The same title concerneth woollen yarn of no great force The print that Executors may have Idemptitate Nominis cap. 4. agreeth with the record The Commons of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland and of the Bishoprick prayen that the Merchants of Newcastle may at all times buy and transport their wools The King will be aduised The print touching the free passage on Severn cap. 3. agreeth with the record That all Judgements given before Anno 1 H. 4. may be good albeit the Letter of Attorney of any person in the said Judgments be lost saving to Iohn Harper and Ellinor his wife in Fee their title in the Manor of Rowley in Staffs The King will be advised The print touching the liberty of the Borough of Dorchester cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the extortion of the Sheriffs of Hereford cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the weighing of Cheese cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching the river of Ley cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print touching Attorneys to be made by religious persons in the North cap. 10. agreeth with the record That attachments and prohibitions against Tithe of great wood may be granted to every person out of either of the Benches The King will be advised In consideration of 200 l. payed by the Merchants of the Isle of Ely to certain of the County of Cambridge to buy twenty marks land by the year It is enacted that the said Inhabitants for ever shall be discharged from paying any thing towards the fees of Knights of the Shire for Cambridgeshire That two persons in every Hundred within the realm may by Commission be appointed to search the due making of woollen Cloathes and to seal the same taking therefore one penny The King will be advised Anno Decimo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae c. apud Westm. decimo septimo die Maii Teste apud Westm. vicesimo quinto die Februarii IOhanni Duci Norff. Hen. Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Warr. Johanni Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. Westmerland Willielmo Com. Suff. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVillielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni Scroope de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tibetoft Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Johanni de Morley Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Beamond No Lord Warden The Parliament holden at Westminster the twelfth day of May in the Tenth year of King Henry the Sixth THe same twelfth day of May in the presence of the King himself sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the palace of Westminster the Lords and Commons being there also present Iohn Bishop of Bath and Wells being Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment declared the cause of the Parliament taking â—or his Theam the first of Peter Deum timete Regem honorificate By which he noted two points the first a general Counsel to Princes for knowledge to learn to obey and serve God according to the words of the Prophet Nunc Reges intelligite erudimini qui judicatis terram servite Domino in timore The second a commandement to the Subjects to learn to obey and honour the Prince according to the Apostles saying Rom. 13. Omnis anima sublimioribuâ— potestatibus subdita sit non enim est potestas c. And again Reddite omnibus debita tributum cui tributum est c. The which points he learnedly enlarged with sundry authorities examples and similitudes whereby he approved that the King and Realm of England might easily attain to the top of peace and prosperity if true fear of God and honour to the Prince were in the hearts of the Subjects wherefore for the attaining thereto and suppressing such rebels as despised the right of the Church and to destroy the Ministers of the same was the one cause of the same assembly The other cause was for due execution of Laws which was salus cujuslibet Civitatis Regni And the third cause was how to inrich the Subjects who of long time have lived in great penury He further sheweth how the Kings will was that every estate should enjoy his due liberties wherefore he willeth the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King accordingly Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Walts and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Duke
Sexti Rex Humf. Duci Gloucest apud Cantabridg decimo die Februarii Teste apud Westm. decimo quarto die Decembris 14.16 Sed tentum apud Burium Sancti Edmondi eodem An. decimo die Februarii Ricardo Duci Eborum Johanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Oxoniae Humf. Duci Buckingham Edwardo Marchioni Dorset Willielmo Marchioni Suffolciae Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundell Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Edwardo Gray Mil. Domino de Ferrariis de Grobie Edward Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Domino de Pomiger Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. de Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Willielmo de Nevil Chlr. Willielmo de Lovell Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Roberto de Willoughbie Chlr. Johan Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sutley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Brook de Cobham Chlr. Johanni Talbott de Lilsle Milit. Reginaldo VVest Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Chlr. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins De notificando Parliamentum de Cantabrigia teneri apud Buri Edmundi Rex Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Buri Sancti Edmundi decimo die Februarii Numerus ordo Nobilium idem quod in posteriori Parliamento praeterquam quod Iohannes Dux Oxomiae ponendus est ante Iohannem Ducem Norfolciae JAcobo de Berckley Chlr. Edwardo Gray Chlr. Domino de Ferrariis de Grobie Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. George Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. de Percie Domino de Pomiger Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Willielmo Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Radulpho de VVilloughbie Chlr. Joh. Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Reginaldo VVest Chlr. Johanni Talbot de Lisle Milit. Tho. de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Chlr. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins The Parliament holden at St. Edmonds Bury on the tenth day of February in the five and twentieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate within the house of refectory of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmonds and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of England Legate of the Sea of Rome and Chancellor of England declared the cause of the same Parliament taking for his Theam Qui autem ineunt pacis consilia sequitur illos gaudium Prov. 12. Upon which he shewed that between the Ambassadors of the King and the French King order was taken for personal interview and talk of these two Kings and sufficient assurance had for the Kings passage into the parts beyond the Seas for his safe being there and like return In which cases the King was but to use their Counsel for the which the Parliament was called Also in repeating of this Theam Qui autum c. he shewed three Kinds of Counsels the first of the wicked utterly to bee shunned according to that of the Psalmist Beatus est vir qui non ambalavit in conâ—ilâ—a impiorum The second of the good and learned who wrote 〈…〉 according to Isay 6. 〈◊〉 consilio suscepit actior in domusua et fecit 〈◊〉 magnam The third of the Holy Ghost expelling all doubts by working inwardly according to the Psalmist 32. Consilium autem Domini in aeternum manet cogitationes ejus a generatione ad generationem The which his Theam â—e enlarging with sundry sayings and examples concluded saying to the same end the King had called the Parliament wherefore he willed the Commons to choose and present their Speaker to the King the next day and remembred them that the Kings will was that all estates should enjoy their Liberties Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The sixteenth of February the Commons notified unto the Lords how that they had chosen their Speaker On Monday after being the fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented unto the King William Tresham Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse rejected he with the common Protestation was allowed At the Petition of Katherine the late wife of Iohn Brockley late Alderman of London and other the Executors of the said Iohn who had 7000 marks to dispose for the soul of the said Iohn It was enacted that the said Chancellor should take order therein It is enacted that the Master and Chaplins of Trinity of Pontfract may enter and enjoy all such their lands as Robert Brown Esquire lately entred upon The Kings Letters Patents made to the Provost of Eaton of the Priory of Deerehurst and other Manors Lands and Tenements and of two Fairs at their Denomination of Laighton Bussard in Bedford confirmed by the whole estates The Kings Letters Patenss made to the Provost of the Kings College in Cambridge of sundry Manors Hereditaments and Liberties are in like manner confirmed In consideration of 4666 l. 13 s. 4 d. granted to Margaret Queen of England out of the Customs c. the King by his Letters Patents granteth to the said Queen during her life all and singular her hereditaments to the same value the which are confirmed by the whole assent At the Petition of Iohn Hampshyre and other Merchants who were spoyled on the sea by certain Britains Letters of Mart are to them granted after the Truce ended It is by the King enacted that Ellinor the late wife of the Duke of Gloucester shall be utterly barred to claim any Dower of any of the hereditaments of the said Duke There is authority given to the Kings Council to make assurance to the Kings Creditors for 100000 l. Petitions of the Commons with their Answers AT the request of four several Parsons of Churches in London who required that they and their Successors might in every of the said parishes place and displace such Schoolmasters as they thought good It was answered that they should the same doe by the advice of the
of Burie who had in his hands 456 l. 2 s. â— d. of a rest for a Collection of Disms shall pay the same to the King albeit he have general pardon for that it was no meaning of the King to pardon the same Vide 27 H. 6. Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Duci Eborum c. apud Reading Sexto die Martii Teste apud Westmonast Vicesimo die Ianuarii RIcardo Duci Somerset Johanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckingham Hen. Duci Oxoniae Edwardo Com. Richmond Jaspero Com. Pembrook Ricardo Com. Warr. Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. Wigorn. Johanni Com. VVilton Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Johanni Talbott Vicecom de Lisle Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Edwardo Gray Domino de Grobie Chlr. Joh. de Berckley Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Rogero Hungerford sen. Milit. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Dom. de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johan Beauchamp Chlr. Dom. de Beauchamp Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Dom. de Clinton Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Nevel de Burgavenny Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Sturton de Sturton Milit. Ricardo VVodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier Domino Fitz-warren Will. Bonevile Dom. de Bonevile de Chatton Milit. Hen Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Milit. Tho. Domino de Roos Mil. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hoo Chlr. Tho. Gray Domino de Richmond Mil. Willielmo Beauchamp Dom. de St. Amando Tho. Percie Dom. de Egremont Mil. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. The Parliament holden at Reding the seventeenth of March in the one and thirtieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber of refectory within the Abbey of Reding and of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln in the absence of Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement very notably declared the cause of the Parliament namely for the good government of the realm and safe defence of the same to which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the fees and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The eight day of March the Commons presented to the King Thomas Thorp Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The Commons grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen The Commons grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage during his life They also grant to the King during his Subsidy of woolls viz. 23 s. 4 d. for every sack of Denizens and 5 l. of Aliens and so of other Staple-ware according to the rate They also grant to the King of every Merchant not born within the realm and no Denizeâ— and keeping house 40 s. and of every such Merchant as shall remain within the realm but 6. weeks 20 s. per Annum And of every Merchant Alien being no Denizen 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. yearly during the Kings life The Speaker declared by mouth how that the Commons had granted to find in the Kings service twenty thousand Archers for half a yeares space The eighteenth day of March after thanks given to the Lords by the King himself Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid and Town of Reding to the twentieth day of April then ensuing at Westminster The King discharged the realm and Commons of 7000 Archers parcell of the 20000 before granted A due proportioning of the 13000 men granted to serve the King for every particuâ—ar County within the realm In consideration of a summe or Masse of money to be levied by the Commons the King for three yeares is content to respite the levying of 13000 Archers unlesse he be drawn by great necessity or in person to go himself to take them It is enacted that Edmund Duke of Somerset late Captain of Callice shall be payed 21648 l. 10 s. out of the Customes of the Staple wares going out of the Port of Sandwich for fees and wages due to him and other Chief Captains and Souldiers while he was Captain there A particular rate out of the grant of a fifteen for certain in every County in England allotted to the repairing of Callice and for the making of a Risebanck An allotment of 20 s. out of the Subsedy for every sack of wool is allowed towards the wages and victualling of Souldiers in Callice The Commons grant unto the King the moity of one Desme and of one fifteen After the words spoken to the Commons by the King viz. VVe thank you for your grants for the which be ye assured we will be a good and gracious Lord unto you Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England the second day of Iuly by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid unto the seventh day of November at Reding The King delivered certain Schedules in parchment signed with his seal manuell the which he willed to be enrolled and enacted The which contain ten purveyances or provisions for Edmund Earl of Richmond and Iasper Earl of Pembrook and for none other severall persons as it should seem to be exempted and out of the Statute of resumption At Reding the twenty second of November in the 32. H. 6. to which place and day the Parliament was prorogued Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbâ—ry and Chancellor of England by his Letters patents rehearseth the beginning and prorogation of the Parliament and adjourneth the same from the day aforesaid to the eleventh day of February then ensuing at VVestminster aforesaid The eleventh day of February at Reding aforesaid Iohn Earl of Worcester and Treasurer of England by the Kings Letters Patents prorogued the Parliament from the day and place aforesaid to the fourteenth day of the same moneth at Westminster The fourteenth day of February Richard Duke of York by the Kings Letters Patents of precedency presideth in the same Parliament The same fourteenth day of February
Powis Ricardo Hastings de Welles Oweno Ogle de Ogle Mil. Edwardo Hastings de Hungerford Anno Primo Ricardi Tertii In Rotulo Parliamenti tenti apud Westm. die Veneris vicesimo tertio die Januarii Anno regni Regis Richardi Tertii primo inter alia continentur ut sequitur Mcmorand quod quaedam Billa exhibita fuit coram Domino Rege in Parliamento praedicto in haec verba WHereas late heretofore that is to say before the Consecration Coronation and Inthronization of our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third a roll of Parchment containing in writing certain Articles of the tenor under-written on the behalf and in the name of the Three Estates of this Realm of England that is to say of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and other Nobles and notable persons of the Commons in great multitude was presented and actually delivered unto our said Soveraign Lord the intent and effect expressed at large in the same roll to the which roll and to the Considerations and instant Petition comprised in the same our said Soveraign Lord for the publique weal and tranquility of this Land benignly assented Now for as much as neither the said three Estates neither the said persons which in their name presented and delivered as it is aforesaid the said roll unto our said Soveraign Lord the King were assembled in form of Parliament by reason whereof divers doubts questions and ambiguities been moved and ingendred in the minds of divers persons as it is said Therefore to the perpetual memory of the truth and declaration of the same be it ordained provided and established in this present Parliament that the tenor of the said roll with all the Contents of the same presented as is abovesaid delivered to our abovesaid Soveraign Lord the King in the name and in the behalf of the said three Estates out of Parliament Now by the said three Estates assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be ratified enrolled recorded approved and authorized to the removing of the recasions of doubts and ambiguities and to all other lawfull effects that shall now thereof ensue so that all things said affirmed specified desired and remembred in the said roll and in the tenour of the same under-written in the name of the said three Estates to the effect expressed in the said roll be of the like effect vertue and force as if all the same things had been so said affirmed specified and remembred in full Parliament and by authority of the same accepted and approved the Tenor of the said roll of Parchment whereof above is made mention followeth and is such To the High and Mighty Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester PLeaseth it your Noble Grace to understand the Considerations Election and Petition under-written of us the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England and thereunto agreeable to give your assent to the Common and publique weal of this land and to the comfort and gladness of all the People of the same First we consider how that heretofore in time passed this land for many years stood in great prosperity honour and tranquility which was caused for so much as the Kings reigning used and followed the advice and counsel of certain Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other persons of approved sagenesse prudence policy and experience dreading God and having tender zeal and affection to indifferent administration of Justice and to the Common and publique weal of the land Then our Lord God was dread loved and honoured Then within the land was peace and tranquility and among the Neighbours Concord and Charity Then the malice of outward Enemies was mightily resisted and repressed and the Land honourably defended with many great and glorious victories Then the intercourse of Merchants was largely used and exercised by which things above remembred the land was greatly inriched so that as well the Merchants as the Artificers and other poor people labouring for their living in divers Occupations had competent gain to the satisfaction of them and their housholds living without miserable and intollerable poverty But afterwards when as such had the rule and governance of this land delighting in adulation and flattery and led by sensuality and concupiscence followed the counsel of persons insolent vicious and of inordinate avarice despising the Counsel of persons good vertuous and prudent such as above be remembred the prosperity of this land decreased daily so that our felicity was turned into misery and our prosperity into adversity and the order of policy and the Laws of God and man confounded whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into great misery and desolation which God defend without due provision of convenable remedy be had in this behalf in all godly haste Over this among other things more special we consider how that the time of the reign of Edw. the 4. late deceased after the ungracious pretended mariage as all England hath cause to say made betwixt the said King Edw. and Elizabeth sometimes Wife to Sir Iohn Gray Knight late naming her self and many years heretofore Queen of England the order of politique rule was perverted the Laws of God and of Gods Church c. also the Laws of Nature and of England and also the laudable customs and liberties of the same wherein every Englishman is inheritor is broken subverted and contemned against all Reason and Justice so that the Land was ruled by self-will and pleasure fear and dread all manner of Equity and Law laid apart and despised whereof ensued many inconveniencies and mischiefs as Murders Extortions and Oppressions namely of poor and impotent people so that no man was sure of his life land or livelyhood ne of his wife daughter or servant every good Maiden and Woman standing in fear to be ravished and deflowred And besides this what discords inward battels effusion of Christian mens blouds and namely by the destruction of the Nobles bloud of this land was had and committed within the same it is evident and notorious through all this Realm unto the great sorrow and heavinesse of all true English-men And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage betwixt the above-named King Edward and Elizabeth Gray was made of great presumption without the knowing and assent of the Lords of this land and also by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the said Elizabeth and her Mother Iaquet Dutchesse of Bedford as the common opinion of the people and the publique voice and fame is throughout all this land and hereafter if the cause shall require shall be proved sufficiently in time and place convenient And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage was made privily and secretly without
Complaints against the Mayor and Townsmen in Parl. the Copy of it denied them p. 200. William de Burcester and his wives Bill of Complaint in Parl. p. 260. See more Title Parliament and King Bishops their promise never to dissent from the Kings promise for the Customs of wooll but by common assent of Parliament p. 24. A Statute exemplified under the great Seal at their request p. 44 Bishop elect p. 45. Bishops to certify the names of all Aliens Benefices and their value into the Chancery p. 50. Their Officers extortions complained of which the King will speak to them to redress p. 61 536. See Archbishop Their Certificate of Bastardy p. 61 62. it appertains not properly to them to give Counsel in matters of Peace or punishments of evils and malefactors p. 11. Consult a part by themselves p. 11 13. They and the Judges to meet and settle the differences about Pensions of Churches p. 139. Bishops to look to the purgation of notorious felons committed to their Prisons To pay to the subsidy as the Laity do for their temporal possessions come to them or purchased since 20 E. 1. p. 163. The Bishop of Winchesters pardon Ibid. To punish Usury p. 285. Not to be imprisoned but fined and ransomed only by reason of their Order for temporal Offences p. 293. Their Protestations to be present in all Parliaments but not in cases of Treason and bloâ—d by reason of the Canons p. 322. All sworn in Parliament on the Archbishop Crosse Ib. The King will move them concerning Tith of woo p. 349. Their Tenants not to contribute to Knights wages p. 1. By office to take care sufficient persons be presented to Benefices and that they reside on them p. 356. An Oath prescribed to them and their successors and taken by them on the shrine of St. Edward to observe all Ordinances of the Parl. of 21 R. 2. p. 369. Their joint thanks to the King in Parliament for pardoning the Bishop of Norwich p. 405. They jointly intercede to the King for the life of Sir Thomas Haxey condemned in Parliament p. 362. Their Chaplains dispensed with for Pluralities and Non-residence p. 409. Their Jurisdictions saved by a Proviso p. 409. To take order that every Parson may reside on his Benefice and keep Hospitality p. 420 421. Bishops elect to be confirmed by the Metropolitan upon the Kings writs without delay by reason of the damnable scism at Rome p. 445. The Bishops assent to the Bill that no man should contract himself to any Queen of England without the Kings license and assent under pain of losse of goods and lands so far forth as it swarveth not from the Law of God and the Church and importeth no deadly sin p. 589. All sworn to the Pope and See of Rome and therefore protest against any thing attempted in Parliament to restrain the Popes power p. 362. To attend the Kings Counsel when chosen of it only when they could p. 611. To pray for the Kings estate the peace and good government of the Land and continuance of the Kings good will to the Commons p. 96. They make a Common Proctor to represent them in Parliament in Criminal causes wherein they could not be personally present by the Cannons p. 368 371. The Bishoprick of Ely granted in Commenda p. 623. Bloud Royal Nobles descended of it their precedency p. 363 574 575 576 578 665 666 667 94 332 370 564. Bohemians banished p. 324. Bohemia destroyed through Infidelity p. 591. St. Botophs the Staple held there p. 125. The Bounds between Holland and Kesteven Cambridge and Lincolnshire to be set out by a Commission and Perambulation p. 335 579. Bowstaves an Act concerning them p. 700. Brabant debate touching keeping the Peace and Covenant with the Duke thereof p. 23. the free trade of those of Brabant for woolls to the Staple at Bruges restrained p. 52. An act for restraint of Clothes and wools in Brabant p. 639 644. Brant river the Wears thereon to be removed p. 124. Breach of Prison See Prison Breakers of the Peace to be arrested p. 136. See Peace and Privilege of Parl. Brecknock Castle p. 565. Brest in Britany p. 157 174 175 312 345. Browers an Act concerning Patents made to them p. 644 and concerning Brewers in Kent p. 660. Bribery and Bribes against Judges oaths Thorp Ch. Justice condemned to death for taking Bribes p. 74 316. Richard Lyons impeached and censured for taking Bribes to pay the Kings due debts p. 121. Bribes for probate of Wills complained of p. 178. A Castle sold and surrendred for Bribes the monie ordered to be paid to the King and parties censured p. 292 293. The Justices of both Benches and Barons to be sworn to take no consideration or Bribes p. 294. The Lord Chancellor accused of Bribery and acquitted p. 299 300 316. A Petition that all the Kings chief Officers may be sworn to shun all Bribery and the attainted thereof to lose all he hath p. 394. No Judges or chief Ofâ—icers to take Bribes under pain of treble damages p. 472. Hugh Brice his impeachment and Account of the kings Exchange to a committee of Lords and Commons p. 684 685 686. Bridges lands purchased and Guardians appointed for the repair of Rochester bridge p. 344. Rents and Customs paid to the old to be paid to the new bridge there p. 370. An Act for Burford and Chalam Bridges near Abindon and free passage over them p. 561. Custom demanded of Boats at Bridges complained of p. 132. Bridgenorth men to exact no imposition for wines passing Severn River p. 482. Bristol petitioned to be made a County bounded their Charters and Liberties confirmed by Parliament p. 119. They erect a fair and prohibit their Townsmen to bring any wares to Bath fair out of malice to Bath for which redresse is sought p. 133. complain of their wrongfull arrests at Callice for the Trespasses and Debts of others p. 138. Lands recovered before the Mayor and Bayliff thereof by an Assize of Freshforce reversed in the K. B. by error and thereupon error brought in Parliament p. 352. Claim and take Custom for wines discharged at Chepstow complaint thereof p. 358. Complain and require redresse of new taxes imposed on their wares passing the River of Severn by the men of Beaudley Gloucester Worcester Bridgenorth p. 482 483. Britain Lord Latimers oppressions there p. 122. Petition for payment of victuals taken by the Duke in Britain in Devonshire in his passage p. 137. Articles between the king and Iohn Duke of Britain read and agreed by the Lords Liberty granted to transport victuals and Merchandise into Britanie thereupon p. 157. Henry 6. his war with Britain and Ed. 4. his peace and alliance with the Duke of Britain p. 683. Merchants robbed by the Britains p. 581. Brocage of debts and usury complained of and examined p. 61 121 285.611 Brokers of Rome their abuses p. 128. Brokâ—rs and Lumbards maintaining usury and Sodomy complained of and to be
the King by Plague Warr and Murrain p. 176. Alice Perâ—ers or Pierce Her Impeachment banishmentâ— Petition restitution p. 123 152 158 177 304 375 534. Plate to be received into the Mint by weightâ— p. 81. See Goldsmiths Mony Plea new entred p. 296. In barr upon a Recognisance and Scire fac that he was sick or imprisoned p. 558. Pleadings to be in English p. 94. Plimouthâ— its Petition to be incorporated p. 482. Their Petition referred to the Councils order p. 622. Liberties granted and confirmed to it by Charter and Parliament p. 624. An Act against the Exactions of Searchers there p. 644. A Confirmation to the Mayor and Commonalty thereof of Liberties under a Fee farm rent to the Prior p. 678. Pluralities the Kings will write to the Pope to stay the grant of them if Ordinaries doe it not p. 460. Complaiâ—ned against See Cardinals Provisors Pope Poysoning of the Dutchess of Clarenceâ— the Judgement and processe on it repealed p. 703. Poll-mony granted by Parliament on Denizens and Aliens p. 145 168 189. 62â— 6â—8â— 649. Poolâ— made a Port-town The Mayor to waâ—â— it and take Recognizances p. 610 611. Sir Mich. de la Pool his accusation and acquittal from bribery p. 299 300. His impeachment censure p. 315 316. Poor people to have writs for Gods sake p. 60. To be aided in their Fifâ—teenths Tenths Fee farms for which Lincoln Melcomb Lyme and other places pray relief and abatement by reason of their poverty losses which are examined by Commission and they eased thereupon p. 74 421 467 468 568â— 598 398. See Quindism Fines of Labourers to be distributed among Poor Towns only not the poor of the whole Countyâ— p. 74 86 159. Half-pence and Farthings of silver to be coyned for their use p. 97. Prisoners of warr unable to ransom themselves pray the King to doe it p. 131. The Poor Merchants complain of sundry Oppressions by the rich p. 58 61. So the Poor of Yarmouth by the rich there p. 136. Pope Letters of Complaint against his Innovations Usurpations Provisions sent by the King Lords Commons to him under their Seals p. 64 65 69 129 130 460. Large bitter Complaints in Parliament against his Usurpations Extortions Provision First-fruits Taxes Simony c. the Acts remedies against them and his Collectors Usurers Brokers Sutes in the Court of Rome for Benefices conveying the Treasure out of the Realm all subjected to a Praemunire banishment and perpetual Imprisonment p. 41 42 45 49 50 51 61 64 65 74 76 80 81 82 100 102 103 109 119 128 129 130 145 147 149 151 161 180 182 186 200 294 295 316 324 330 333 334 341 346 354 387 407 408 409 418 444â— 458 460 461 467 468 536 547 574 603 623 551 560 565 588 593. Pope sends Cardinals to treat a Peace between England and France advised with and Ambassadors sent to him about it p. 14 37 90 190 43 82. The Statute of Provisors moderated to eschue debates with the Pope p. 346. Treated with as a Friend not a Iudge in the Peace with France p. 37. The warr with France not to be stayed by any Letters or requests from him p. 43. The Commons protest in Parl. they neither would nor could any longer bear his strange Oppressions Provisions desiring the King and Lords to redresse them or else to help them to expell his power out of the Realm by force p. 41 61 74. He intends to cite the King to Rome for his Homage and Tribute for England and Ireland which King Iohn by his Homage and Charter subjected to himâ— The whole Parl. resolve them to be void and against his Oath and that they would with all their power resist him and his Citations concerning it p. 102. The Popes dispensation to persons professed to inherit Lands complained of and nulled p. 149. His Bull to exempt the University of Oxford from the Archbishops visitation set aside and nulled by the King and Parliament p. 479 480 The Archbishops Protestation against the Popes power to excommunicate any Bishop in England or intermeddle in any presentations to Benefices recovered in the Kings Courts or translation of Bishopricks against the Kings will the same being to the destruction of the Realm of England alwayes so â—ree as that it had no earthly Soveraign but only subject to God p. 348. A great Scism in the Church by having 2. Popes which the King meaned to redresse p. 415. It is enacted by reason of the damnable Scism at Rome that all Bishops elect and other persons shall be confirmed by the Metropolitan upon the Kings writs without further excuse or delay p. 545. An Act that Pope Urban is the true Pope That the Livings of all Cardinals and other Rebels to him should be seised into the Kings hands and every one under a Praemunire who should procure any Provision or Instrument from any Pope but him p. 179 180.316 A Crossado granted by the Pope against the Anti-Pope and an Army raised under the Bishop of Norwich to prosecute his adherents p. 180 284 285 287 316. The Popes Notary commanded to make a publike Instrument of the Commons agreement submission in Parl. to the King and Lords to make a Peace with France p. 88. No monies to be transported hence to the Pope p. 49. A Protestation of the Commons in relation to the Pope that in temporal things they owe obedience to none but the King p. 147. The Bishops and Clergy of England sworn to the Pope whence they make a Protestation in Parliament that they neither can nor will assent to any thing Law or Statute in derogation or limitation of his power but wholly withstand the same p. 318 332 362. The Popes Rights in England provided to be saved if the French conquer it p. 47. Sent to by King R. 2. to â—aâ—ify the Oath for confirmation of and against the repeal of the Statutes Judgements in 21 R. 2. p. 371 372. For which he is impeached as a derogation of the Crown of England freed from the Pope and of its Statutes and Laws p. 387. Collectors of Impostrions by the Popes Bulls to be Traytors and those who bring them in p. 324. The Archbishop cited to Rome as one who had wrought against the Pope in this Realm The Commons pray the King would write to the Pope to purge him p. 588. Pope Martin refuseth to agree to an incorporation of Canons and Nuns together in Syon Nunnery being against the Canons there should be two Capacities in one foundation p. 589. A Cardinal admitted of the Kings Council with this Protestation that he might absent himself in all Affairs and Councils wherein the Pope or See of Rome were concernedâ— p. 593. See more in Aliens Cardinals Provisors Rome Porâ—smouth its ships p. 20. Portugal Duke of Lanc. his undertaking to enter it p. 291. The Kings subjects in it to be succoured p. 281. Posse Comitatus to be raised by the Sheriffs and Justices of every County to
Angliae Council Merchants Purveyance Merchants called to Parliament by Writ Pardons Pardon Powder Array Soldiers Scotland Barwick Soldiers Array Array Soldiers Roxsborough-Castle King of Scots Archbishop of York Vacancie Array Soldiers Imprest money Commission Justiceship Array Garrison Edinburgh Sterling Berwick Chamberlain Fees Victualler Array North-marches Victuals exported Scotland Commission Array Rebels Marshal-Law Pardons Peace Truce Martial Law Duke of Cornwal Custos Angliae Councellors of State Councellor of State Victuals Navy Writ of Summons Causes of Parliament Enemies Peace Defence Sea guarded Subsidy Proclamation Victory Aid Aid granted Privy-seal Kings Letters Victory Aid of money Victory Aid Kings Honor. Monies advanced Woolls Custom Subsidy to secure Debts Letters-Patents Victuals Kings Butler King of Scots Array Parsons Tenths Sheriff Carisbrook-Castle Isle of Wight Array Sheriffs Commissioners Priors Aliens Exoneration Tenths Hospitals Sheriffs Merchants Council Wools Customers Subsidy respited Isle of Wight Woolls Woolls Customs Merchants Woolls Customs Sheriffâ— Merchants Merchants Subsidies Kings debts discharged Kings Jewels redeemed Security Sea guarded Navy Iersey and Gernsey Kings Jewels Customs assigned Woolls Queens Debts Lords Letter to the King Council Sir Iohn Stantens Case Fine Receit Voucher Counter-plea Petition Procedendo ad judicium granted by the Parliament Petition Parliament Clerk of the Parliament Procedendo ad judicium A Cause adjourned for difficulty out of the Common Pleas into the Parliament and there adjudged Fine Averment Voucher Baron Feme Averment Writ to the Justices Clerk of Parliament Proclamation Petitions Adjournment by reason of sundry Members absence Causes of Parliament Subsidy Voyage Royal. Enemies French King Guyen Ill Officers Monie Grievances redressed Adjournment Peers tried only by Peers in Parliament Committees Chancellor Treasurer Liberties Painted chamber Archbishops submission Triall by Peers Publike affairs before private Commons Magna Charta Restitution Officers oathsâ— Laws observed Great Charter Old debts pardoned Accompâ—s of all publick Receipts Inrollment Ordinance abused repealed Commissions revâ—ked Fines outragious Chancellor and other Officers elected and sworn in Parliament Aid granted upon condition Petitions granted Committee of Lords Clergy Imprisonment without due Process Churches liberties Mag. Charta Oath Imprisonment Great Charter Writ to the Bâ—shop Capias Religious houses Officers force and extortion Inquisition Spiritual Court Usurers Corporal pain Probate of Wills Marriage Subsidy unevenly levied Kings answer advised upon Attachment Magna Charta Churches liberties Oath Perjury Imprisonment Process Churches liberties Fraud Usurers Money for pains Pecuniary Probate of Wills Marriage Subsidy Tenths Barony Kings Answer Great Charter Parliament Officers oath Pardon Treasurer Chief Baron Statute revoked Officers election Lords assent Oath Parliament Offices resumed Statutesâ— Great Officers Oath Oath refused Oppressions Exemplifications Great Seal Archbishop Committers Parliament Wools transportation denied Forfeiture Wars Aliens Wools Assesment Apportiament Wools Enrolment Commissions Archbishop Privy Seal Great Seal Peers Impeachment Oath Officers election Usury Court Christian Revocation Wool Commissions revoked Writ of Sumâ—mons Clerk of Parliament King Painted Chamber Parliament adjourned because some Lords and Commons were not come Proclamation against wearing Arms. Petitions Chancellor Causes of Parliament Truce with France Kings Estâ—â—e Good Government Truce Kings explâ—iâ—â— related Pope Cardinals Truce Pope no Judge War and Peace by the Parliaments advice Advice Ambassadors Lords and Commons several advice Peace Oppressions Justice Commons answer Justices elected in Parliament Oath Commissions Justices of Peace Commons Lombards Merchants-strangers Tax Merchants Gold Florens Silver Monies Silver Monâ—y Flemings Wooll Bullion Mony Wool Customes Customes Pardon License Wool Aliens Denizens Fines Justices of Oyer and Terminer Common Law Supersedeas Felony Peace Archbishops arraignment cancelled in Parliament Statutes repealed as contrary to the Laws and Kings Prerogative Statute Justices advice Customers Controllers Searchers Farms Forfeitute Forrain Birth Aliens King and his Isshe Peers Lawyers Kings service Parliament Church Great Charter Forrest Statutes observed Answ. Statute revoked Law Prerogative Customs Wools Merchants grant Answ. Answ. Purveyors Indictment Challenge Marshalsey Chancellor Treasurer Peers Stranger Answ. Kings prerogativeâ— Answ. Acounts Kings Prerogative Outlaries reversed Answ. Accountants Customs Forfeiture Conspirators Râ—otors False money Crown Lands Kings Councel Answ. Prisoners Appealers Justices of Assizâ— Answ. Fines Answ. Fines excessive Leets Answ. Weights and Measures Measures Alnage Flemmings Justices Fees Sheriffs not to be Justices Delay Assize Necessity Nobles Fines pardoned Answ. Kings Debtors Exchequer Justices of Peace Extracts Exchequer Answ. Tail Alienation Answ. Non-Claims Fines Executor of Executor Administrator Answ. Ordinary Court Christian Tithe wood Answ. Parceners Joyn-tenants Recovery Summons and Severance Wooll Weights Sheriffs Laws Free * Ordinaries Usurpation Temporal laws Answ. Farthings Mâ—ney Answ. Merchants advice to the Parliament Staple Florines Custom Commons Provisors Rome Strangers Pope Cardinals Commouns resolution Oppressions Answ. Provisors Kings Prerogative Lords and Commons Bulls Rome King present Painted Chamber Chancellor Parliament Convocation Absence of Members punished Proclamation Petitions Clerk of Parliament Lords House called Absents punished Chancellor Full Parliament Causes of Parliament Truce Parliaments advice Lords and Commons several advice Wars to be ended by Battel or Peace War Pope Royal Assent Aid granted Dismes Quindesms Commons petitions Wars Lords assent Quindesms granted upon condition Defence Royal expedition Royall Assent Answ. Commissions recalled Justices of Peace Wools. Weights and Measures Exigents Money Mint Purveyors Steward Marshal Clergies Petitions Prelates Justices Bigamy Mortmain Purveyance Church Prohibition Justices Processe Ecclesiastical Tithes Exemplification Provisors Imprisonment perpetual Provisoes Provisors Presentment Bishop Bishop elect Aliens Enemies Bulls Rome Imprisonment Deanry of York Provisors Enemies Defence of the Realm Petitions Statutes made Erroneous Process Re-account Wooll Acquittance Clerks of the Chancery L. Chancellor L. Keeper Chancery Supersedeas Priviledge Sureties Parliament Chancery London Attachment Sheriff Priviledge Nottingham Gaols Sheriffwicks Gold and Silver-Maces Kings Serjeants Answ. London Maces Supersedeas Supersedeas Weights and Measures Commission Exchequer Account Proclamation Wooll Gold Exigents Oaths Lord Keeper of England Proclamation against Weapons and Games Petitions Clerk of the Parliament Parliament adjourned for absence of divers Lords and Commons Kiâ—gs 〈…〉 Causes 〈…〉 Parliamâ—nâ— Kings safety Peace False money Letters of credit Lord Keeper Kings Victorâ—es Callis War Normandy Normandy Englands invasion Duke of Normandy Englands Conquest Church revenues Popes right Scots Parliaments advâ—ce Aid required Câ—mmons Former â—ids Impositions against Law Customes Aâ—rays Purveyoâ—s Two 〈…〉 Statutes observed Arrays Answ. Arrays Fines Answ. Array Supersedeas Sea-coasts guarded Answ. Coining False money Treason Kings Receivers Gold Changers Answ. Subsidy on Wools. Answ. Purveyance Justices of Peace Felonies Answ. Answ. Sea guarded Answ. Sheriffs Purveyors Answ. Quindesms Answ. Justices Oath Answ. Quindesmies Defence Answ. Alien Enemies Answ Pardon Answ. Lumbards Merchants Gold Alien Monks Schollars Parliament Kings Prerogative Answ. Aliens Cardinals Answ. Aliens Enemies Cardinals Schollars Answ. Cardinals Answ. Aliens Provisors Outlawry Answ. Provisors Lords Answ. Alien Enemies Forfeiture Alien Farms Imprisonment perpetual Kings
Appeal Nisi prius Jurors Kings Bench. Answ. Old Law Fraudulent Conveyances Answ. Indictment Attorneys Inquest returned Exchequer Attaint Old Law Answ. Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords not come Chief Justice Causes of the Parliament Churches Reformation Peace Scotland Wools Petitions Peace and War by the Parliaments advâ—ce Lords Scotland War advised Lords advice Merchants Câ—llis Commons advice respiâ—ed Conference with Merchants Magna Charta and Statutes Purveyors Penalty for negligences Omission out of the printed Statute Kings Carriages Wines ingrossed Inquests forreign Answ. Imprisonment without due Process Answ. Mainpriâ—e Fines Answ. Wools Weights Priests wages Offendors Parliament annually Subsidy of Wools pardoned Gold and silver Answ. Peace Justices of Peace Fees Answ. Debt Exchequer Answ. Petitions answered Answ. Pardon Waste Escheators Labourers Fines Petitions answered Subsidy granted Lionel created Duke of Clarence in Parliament Duke of Lancaster Earl of Cambridge Iohn created Duke of Lancasterâ— Charter Edmond Earl of Cambridge created in Parliament Charter Pleadingâ— in English Staple Conusance Chief Justice Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Subjects grieveances Churches liberties infringed Petitions Petitions Mâ—rchants-aliens Transportation of Woollen cloaths Cheese Sheep Malt Beer inhibited Commons thanks to the King Clergy to pray for the peace and good gâ—vernment oâ— the Land c. Kings good will to the Commons Answ. Statutes confirmed Ordinances Customs of Woolls Answ. Silver coin Gold Answ. Exchange Answ. Money Poor Coiners Half pence and Farthings Answ. Merchants hostlers Regrators Forestallers Ordinance Fish Merchants Corn Meal and Victuals not to be transported Proclamâ—tion Answ. Weers Nusances Answ. Nisi prius King party Kingâ— Attorneyâ— Venire facias Answ. Commons House Justices of Peace nominated by the Commons Answ. Identitate nominis Variance Poultry prices Exchequer Grocers Artificers Apparel Pestilence Alienation without licence Answ. Wines Price of Wâ—nes Testimonial Justices of Assize Answ. Villenage Suggesâ—â—ons Parliament prorogued Chancellor Apparâ—el Ordinanâ—e Statute Amâ—ndment Kings thanks Parliament dissolved Silver vessels Hawks Statutes printed not in the Record Parliament adjourned Proclamation Painted Chamber Chancellour Causes of Parliament Justice Kings good will to his Subjects Kings thanks Common Peace Good Laws Amendment of faulty Laws Petitions Kings Declaration Popes citations and Usurpations Kings Courts Provisors Ancient Laws Prerogative Treasure exported Ecclesiastical livings Divine Service Alms Hospitality Parliament Liberties Provisors Variance in the Record Transportation of Victuals and Corn prohibited Scotland Protection Scots Answ. Fines of the Chancery Answ. Peoples case Staple Impositions to cease Answ. Ships forfeited Customs cancelled Wines Suggestions Jurors Embracers Maintainers Staple Melcomb Lewes Customes Customers Lynne Royall assent Kings thanks Parliament dismissed Chancellor Painted Chamber Causes of Parliament Prince Gascoign Ireland Government of England Petitions Chancellor Causes of Parliament Popes claim of Tribute King Iohns Homage to Rome for England and Ireland Popes citation of the King to Rome Advice required Bishops Lords Commons Kings cannot subject the Kingdom to the Pope or any other but by common assent of Parliament Kings Oathâ— Popes usurpation unanimously resisted Universities Oxford Cambridge Fryers Complaint in Parliament Parliament Universities Degrees Bulls Rome King and his Council Chancellor Kings son in Law to be created an Earl Lords assent Chief Baron Parliament Aestate probanda Livery ouster le maine Age. Inspection in Parliament Reseisure Infaâ—ra Charters Recognisances Statutes Writings vacated Kings thanks Parliament dismâ—ssed Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Arch-Bishop Painted Chamber Arch-Bishop Victory over enemies Subjects loyalty Causes of Parliament Petitions Treaty King of Scots Peace Scotland Lords and Commons several advise and Answers Disinherison of the King and Crown Oath of Allegiance Thanks for Aids and Subsidies granted Subsidy granted Old Customs and new Great Charter Statutes Pardons Process of Law Commissions Escheators Labourers Victuals London Forainers Retail Merchants Wines Green wax Exchequer Aliens Callice Kings thanks for aids Lords and Commons dine with the King Sir Iohn de Lee. Robert Latimers Case Wardship Imprisonment Duress Due process of Law Kings Steward Kings Councel Unjust oppression Attachment Verge Marshalsey Jurisdiction Imprisonment Authority abused Purveyors Defrauding the King Mannor of Raynham Dover Castle Imprisonment in the Tower Constable of the Tower Kings Councel Wardship resigned to the King Recognisances vacated Lord Chancellor Causes of Parliament Parliaments counsel and assent used in all weighty affairs Peace with the French upon conditions Gascoyne Stile of French King relinquished The French breach of conditions Parliaments advise required Petitions Lords and Commons answer Stile of France Stile of France assumed by the King New Great Seal Patents Charters Writs Seals altered Subsidy granted Old Customs Forts surveyed and repaired Aliens Armour Horse-coursers Answ. No man punished contrary to Law Commissions repealed Prescription Answ. Silva cedua Tythes Answ. Pardon Forrest Sheriffs Answ. Indictment Nisi prius against the King Treason Chaâ—cellor Answ. Sea-mark Times of Wâ—r Answ. Executors refusal Aquitaâ—ned Repeal of Statutes Variance from the Record Staple King's thanks to the Lords and Commons Booty in War Conquest Charters Priors Aliens seised Clergies Array Parliament dissolved Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Kings necessity Kings Army The French Kings power by Land and Sea Englands invasion Advice of Parliament required Petitions Subsidy granted Contribution Staple Melcomb Chancellor Easter Petitions Kings thanks Parliament dismissed Great Câ—uncel summoned Chancellor Subsidy mistaken Parishâ—s Subsidy supplied Parish Church Chester Moâ—tmain Commission for the Subsidy Collectors Commissioners Knights of Counties Petitions read and answered before the Lords and Commons Parliament dismissed Great Charter Church-men removed Crowns disinherison Officers Laymen prefeâ—r'd Kings election and prerogative over his Officers Kings Councel Answ. Petitions considered Lords Lands in Capite leased Answ. Mills Fines for Writs Answ. Purveyance Measure Answ. Eyre Treilbaston Corn Victuals Wooll Green wax Extracts Certainty Parliament Answ. Sheriffâ— Trial Birth Answ. Old Law Mayors Bayliffs Sergeant Victuallâ—rs Taverners Answ. Easterlings Merchants Answ. Merchants Wool Free Trade Answ. Merchants restrained Wines Repeal of Statutes Corporations Liberties Answ. Navies decay Ships arrestedâ— Mariners Merchants restrained Masters of Ships Imposition Answ. Answ. Goods uncustomed Pardon Answ. Fortresses Answ. Assiises Justices Parents Answ. Commissioners charges Sessions Answ. Villenage Visne Answ. Possession Inquest of Office Escheator Trial. Scire facias Answ. Sheriff Escheators Answ. French Varlets Answ. Justice not to be delaid No man to answer without due process of Law Answ. Impositions Woolls Commons House Subsidy Answ. Sea-coast guarded Protections Commons loss Answ. Seals counterfeited Forgery Imprisonment perpetual Scottish money Answ. Priests Clergies assent Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Peace broken by the French Kings right to France Armies King of Castile Aragon Royal Navy Publick charges Aid required Nobles Realms defence Season of War Speedy answer Committee of Lords and Câ—mmons Conference Aids granted Wars
Petitions answered Chancellor Kings thanks Commons Petitions Câ—mmons dismissed Parliament ended Petitions Subsidy granted upon condition Tonnage and Poundage Wars Commissions Fees Commons house Collectors Magna Charta Forrest Answ. Petitions answered Private petitions Answ. Cloaths Assizes London Cities Liberties Answ. Staples Calice Answ. Kings Councel Scottish silver Protection Warâ—â— Deceit Answ. Chancery Staple at Lin Woolls Answ. Tythe Wood Prohibition Answ. Ordinaries Jurisdiction Breach of Faith Labourers Answ. Purveyors Resistance Answ. Accomptants Exchequer Imprisonment Answ. Cyrographer Fines Fees Common Pleas. Answ. Labourers Justices removed Answ. Villenage Trial. Answ. Masters of ships Marriners Wages Ships pressed Necessity Answ. Allowance for tackling of ships Answ. Provisors Pope First-fruits Answ. Burgesses Bristoll a County Perambulation Chancery Charters confirmed Answ. French Prior Alieâ—s Answ. Sheriffs Bailiffâ— Answ Exchequer Suggestions Answ. Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Proclamation for all summoned to appear Chancellor King Câ—uses of the Parliament Government of the Realm Defence of the Realm by Land and Sea Wars against enemies Advice of Parliament followed Lords and Commons advise apart Petitions Commons meet in the Chapter house at Westminster Committee of Lords to consult with them Subsidy granted Commons device Kings Council Royal assent Chancellor Treasurer Privy Seal Officers Rewards prohibited Officers Rewards prohibited Reports of matters of Council to the King Ordinances by the King and his Council Officers Ordinances repealed Sweet Wines Retail London Lord Mayor Prices of Wine Commons Protestation Allegiance King abused by ill Officers Ransoms Subsidies Wars Councils abuses Staple Bullion Shifts for money Provide Debts bought at Undervalues Richard Lyons his Impeachment Deceits Extortions Farmer of Subsidies Licences to transport Wooll and Staple-ware Impositions Change of mony Bribes to pay due debts Council His answer and submission His censure Imprisonment Seisure of his lands and goods Extortions Commissions of Enquiry Dâ—sfranchisement Lord Latimers impeachment by the Commons Oppressions Chamberlain Kings Councel Exactions Victuals Ransomes Not accounting Victuals sold Losse of S. Saviours Fort and others Câ—nfederacy with Richard Lyons His answer Triall by Peers Commons Judgment against him Ill counsel Deceit to the King Staples prejudice Callis Impositions Peers Judges Imprisonment Marshall Fines and Ransomes Commons request Officers confiscated Put from the Councel Mainprisors Marshall Mainprisors William Ellis his Impeachment Extortions Farmer of Customes Subsidy His Answer His Judgment Imprisonment Iohn Peach his Impeachment Monopoly Wines Extortion Judgement against him Imprisonment Recompence Lord Nevill impeached Privy Councellour Buying debts due to the King at undervalues Defrauding the King for souldiers wages Witnesses produced Witness imprisoned Judgment against him Imprisoment Losse of lands goods and offices Restitution Executors Women Maintenance Alice Perers Forfeiture Banishment Prior of Ecclefield Alien Complaint Lord Latimer Adam de Bury impeached Deceits wrongs Major of Callis Delinquents sent for Contempt Goods and Chattels forfeited Error in Parliament Archdeaconry of Norwich Errors in the Common Pâ—eas to be reversed in the Kings Bench and of the Kings Bench in the Parliament Complaint Commons Great Yarmouth Charter repealed in one clause only Commons request Prince of Wales created only by the King not by the Lords Kings prerogative King sick Lords and Commons attend him Kings confirmation Magna Charta Forrest Answ. Sheriffs Inquests and Juries Pannel Sheriffs oath Answ. Undersheriff Pannel Liberties Exemptions Occupations Abuses reformed Answ. Commissions repealed Extortions Commissioners of good name estate and reputation Answ. Jâ—stices Sergeants Lawyers Salmons Fish Thames Nets Answ. Commissions of Enquiry Wears Braint Thames Answ. Lombards Brokers Usury Sodomy Spies Aliens Answ. Strangers Corporations Liberties 〈…〉 shewed Châ—nceâ—â— Answ. Protectâ—â—â—â— repealed Answ. Council Ribald Beggâ—rsâ— Banishment Answ. Statute of Winchester Râ—berdsmen Counterfeits Soldiers Staple Lincoln S. Botolphs Answ. Kings pleasure Incontinency Clergy Bigamy Answ. Bailiffs Forrestsâ— Forfeiture Legal trial Chancery Mainprise Eyre Restitution Answ. Ill Couâ—cellors Officers disabled Restitution Answ. King and Lords liberty Aliens religiouâ— Rome Answ. Council Justices of Peaceâ— nominated by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Oath Fees Answ. King and Councel Church lands sold. Westm. 2. Answ. Alienationâ— Hundreds not to be farmed Answ. Indictment Coroner Murder Flight Forfeiture Justices of Goal delivery Answ. Stankes Nusances Havens Answ. Accounts Exchequer Averment Answ. Sea-coasts defence Residence Answ. Sheriffs Dâ—puties Answ. Justices of Assize Associates Answ. Yarmouth Herring Monopoly Repeal Free trade Barre Collateral warranty Assets Answ. Justices of Assize Sessions Goal deliveries Patents Answ. Sheriffs annually chosen Exchequer Extracts Escheators Answ. Commissions Dinners Perambulations of the Forrest Officers Forfeiture Dammages Answ. Charter of the Forrest Lumbards Fraud Answ. Kings Councel Seisure of lands and goods Attainder Answ. Sheriffs Undersheriffs Gaoler Justices Commissioners Answ. Bishops Probate of Wills Fees Acquittance Account Answ. Felons goods Office Traverse Old Law Answ. Account Exchequer Scottish money Sweet Wine Answ. Clerks of the Marker Fines in grosse Measures Weights Answ. Negligence Patent Escheators enquest Answ. Chancellor Champerty Damages Answ. Provisors Rome Answ. Lord Steward Marshal Jurisdiction Articuli super chartas Verge Answ. Jurisdiction Exchequer Wager of Law Prerogative Answ. Corographer Fines Fees Answ. Popes usurpations Provisors Tax to the Pope Popes extortions Brokers of Rome Simony Unworthy persons promoted Learnings decay Alien enemies Treasure exported Law of the Church Presentation Hospitality Pope Lay-Patrons Simony Popes covetousness Popes great exactions treasure out of England Churches honor Plagues of the Realm for suffering the Church to be defaced Churches reparation Jubile Letters to the Pope Great Seal Nobles Seals No money to be exported Lombards Forfeiture Imprisonment Answ. Pope Popes Collectors Aliens Spies Secrets disclosed Popes Receiver and Collector Peter-pence Mony transported Cardinals Aliens Deans Archdeacons Prebendaries Mony transported English Brokers Popes usurpation Enemies Lombards Subsidy Popes translation of Bishopricks c. Popes Collector First-fruits Provisors Rome Popes reservations Benefices Cardinals created Kings enemies Popes usurpations Kings enemies Kings regality Religious houses Free eleâ—â—ion Popes incroachment Legacies from the Pope Popes covetousness of our money Money transported Popes Collectors Cardinals Proctors Popes Collectors banished under pain of death Proctors banished Popes Collector Clergies vassalage to the Popes Collector Persons sent for to give information to the Lords and Commons Servants Beggers Vagabonds Labourers Answ. Kings Wards Commitment Prerogaâ—ive Answ. Prescription Writ of Right Mortdancester Nuper obiit Cozenage Aiel Old Law not to be changed Answ. Aliens Benefices Answ. Errors Justices of Assize Answ. General Pardon of Intrusions Prerogative Answ. Account Executors Guardian in Soccage Answ. Restitution Farmers tâ— Aliens Answ. Priors Churches Conventual Collegial Parochial Grants prejudicial to the King and Realm Answ. Forestallers Justices of Peace Answ. Infants Fines Old Law Answ. Prior Aliens Wars French Alien enemies banished Prisoners Ransome Answ. Devon Oppression Stannaries Charter explained in Parliament Cornwall Stannaries Cumberland Carlisles repair Aid Poverty Warden of the Marches Answ.
Patent Answ. Woollen cloth Alnager Loans repaid Five chief Officers not to be displaced without special fault Answ. English merchants Reprisal Scots goods Answ. Mortuaries Armour Answ. Provisions Variance from the Record Popes abuses Nâ—velties Cardinals Archdeaconry of Bath Writs of Summons Chancellor Magna Charta read Parliament adjourned because divers Lords and Commons not come by reason of the soul ways and weather Commons Writs not returned Kings Command Many Temporal Lords absent upon the Marches Kings Justices Serjeanâ—s Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Churches Libertiesâ— Peace of the Realm Warrs and Army in France and Scotland Aids expected Defence Kings Jewels pawned Gallies to keep the Seas provided by the King Aid Speedy consultation and aidâ— Receivers of Petitions Triers of Petitions Chancellor Commons house departed Their consultations Rancour and malice to be laid aside Commons consult together Speaker of the Commons Sir Iohn Oldersburgh Particulars of the Kings necessities required Commons poverty Kings Officers A particular Schedule delivered the Commons amounting to one hundred and fifty thousand pound The Commons desire a moderation of the Lords Commons grant a conditional aid if the Clergy would give such a sum Poll money Clergies Priviledges to the aids in Parliament of their free wills Poll money granted Subsidies of Wools. Sir Ralph Ferriers accused in Parliament of action of Treason before the Lords Lords Judges in Parliament Evidence against him Letters of Intelligence produced against Sir Ralph Letters to the Admiral of France Letters out of France Parliament Marshal of England Councel required and denied His answer to the Letters and Evidences Improbabiliâ—y Sâ—r Ralphâ—emanded â—emanded to prison Parliament The letters and their credits examined The Letters seem forged Sir Ralphs answer Combate offered and denied The Lords think him innocent He is bailed by Pledges body for body Next Parliament Chief Justice Begger committed to prison for forgery Great Charter and other Statutes confirmed Answ. Commission of Survâ—y sealed Fâ—es fâ—r the Commissioners Answ. Taxes Warrs Answ. Prerogative Tax how to be imployed Warrs Answ. Chester Durham Cinque Ports Answ. Half pence Farthings Answ. Ship Deodand Favour Normans Ships Answ. Error Oath Suggestion Answ. Outlawry Addition Answ. Common Law Oâ—slâ—â— of possession Eâ—quest of Office Escheator Patent Answ. Sheriffs discharge Impossibility Answ. Pardon 2. E. 3.7 8. Yarmouth Patent Revocation Monopoly Kirkley road Answ. Commissioners Yarmouth Victuals Butter Cheese Transportation â—â—â—e Lincolnshire bounds Commissions Answ. Derby Assizes Justices Answ. Sussex and Surrey Sheriffs allowance Fee farm Earl of Arundel Answ. Popes Collectors First-fruits Prohibition Answ. Debts of E. 3. be paid Prior Aliens removed Answ. Answ. Sheriffs Pardon of Felony Riot in York Major of York unduly sworn and chosen by a Writ Answ. Commissions to enquiry of the Riot Sergeants at Arms to arrest the principall rioters and bring them to the Councel The undue elected Major to cease exercising his Office and appear before the Councel Iohn de Gisborn commanded by Writ to execute this Office Wines Gageing of them Parliament adjourned becauâ—e all the Writs not return'd Painted chamber Commons all called by name Chancellor Causes of Parliament Subsidy granted with proviso Council of Lords Voyage royal into France Lords Soldiers Wages Merchants Security Causes of Parliament Lords and Commons advice Petitions Commons desire to know the sum required Loan Assurance Knights of Shires Conference with the Lords Merchants conferred with Commons and Knights debates Report to the Lords Merchants Loan by the Nobles and Gentry Assurance Merchants Mony advanced by loan Wools. Merchant strangers Staple Free trade Subsidy Seas guarded Parliament Heresie Parliament adjourned because All Souls day Parliament adjourned because sundry Sheriffs had not returned their Writs Parliament adjourned because many Knights and Burgesses made default Debates between the Duke of Lancaster and Earl of Northumberland who came with divers armed men and archers to the Parliament Parliament adjourned by reason of their armed power King Councel and Nobles desired to appease the discord The Councel called by name in Parliament Archbishop elect Chancellor of England his Oration Causes of Parliament Vice suppressed Receivers of Petitions Triers of Petitions Causes of Parliiament Commons called all by their names Treasurer of England Churches liberties Peace Tumults Rebellion Villanies Manumissions Great Seal Revocation Kings wants Aids Commons house Commons present their Speaker Sir R. VValsgrave He desires to be discharged Charged on his Allegiance to continue Speakers protestation He requireth a more full declaration of the Kings meaning Chancellor Vâ—llains Repeal of Manumissions Parliament Commâ—ns Repeal Infranchisement Commons assent Committee of Lords to confer with the Commons General Pardon desired Old order of the Parliament Commons to shew their conceits to the Lords Commons Protestation Ill government about the King Purveyors Commons pilled Enemies unresisted Privy-Council Reformation must begin at the head Kings Confessor secluded the Court. Commons devises Wise men to be appointed about thâ— Kings person Wise Officers Chancellor to be elected Chanceries enormities redressed Treasurer Barons Exchequer-Officers Justices of both Benches Serjeants c. Commons to view the Names and Ordinances before confirmed Tumults suppressed Realms great poverty by the wars Money exported Base money Low price of Wools Tin and Lead Lords and Nobles Ordinances executed General Pardon desired Law regulated Clerks of Chancâ—ry Justices Barons of Exchequer Lawyers Lords c. Report to the Lords and Commons Exchequer Pardons required confirmed in Parliament Pardon Rebels pardon Excepted personâ— Archbishop slain Treasurer slain Chief Justice slain Due remedy Pardon for those who rose not Commons request Law-made Ordinance against Purveyors Kings charges great Kings marriage with Anne daughter to the Emperor Charls Aid for safety of the King State and Common wealth Peoples ill will Commons dare not grant greater Taxes Subsidy of Wooll and Staple-wares Commons unadvised Parliament adjourned till after Christmas Further advice Queens arrival Earl of Arundel Sir Mic. de la Poole Custom of Parliament Pardons King used not to grant ought to the Commons till they granted something to him Commons answer Subsidy delayed Kings answer Pardons delayed Commons better advised Subsidy of Wools and Staple-wares granted with an interruption Pardons openly read Commons thanks Commission by Parliament to stay Riots Insurrections Rebellions Mainpâ—isors discharged Enlargementâ— Richard Clâ—ndâ—n Eâ—quire Bill of accusation Sir William Coggan Menaces Extortionâ— Combate Câ—uncel desire in Parâ—iamentâ— denied in Treason Aâ—swers amended Triall adjourned â—ouâ— of Parliament before the Justices Common Law Major and Commonalty of Cambridge accused Insurrection Universities treasurie robbed Universities Charters Chancellor and the Universities released by Duress University Seal Writs to the Mâ—jor and Commonalty of Cambridge to appear and answer in Parliament A Writ to the Major and Bailiff They appear in proper person The Commons appear by Aâ—torney Not guilty pleaded by the Major Deeds redelivered sealed gotten by Duress Râ—lease of Liberties c. by Durâ—â—â— Release of Actions Deeds by Duress cancelled Chancellor
money for his Spanish voyage Peace made The Duke justified Award by King and Lords Pardon craved for words in Parliaâ—ment Tunnage and Poundage granted To cease if Peace made Bâ—istoll Assize of Fresh-force Mayor and Bayliffs of Bristoll Error Error in Parliament Scire facias Next Parliament Record Speciall Erroâ— assigned Error Scire facias Error 〈◊〉 faciâ—â— Peâ—ce assâ—nied to with France by Parliament upon conditâ—on King to do no homage Kingâ— and Realme Lâ—beâ—tâ—es savâ—d Kings Title Commons Declaration by their Speâ—kâ—â— Peace passeth tâ—â—eir capacity They râ—feâ— themâ—â—lvâ—â— to the King and Councel Homage Soveraâ—gnty Resort Homage for Guienne Crown of England Kingâ— Title to France Kings favour to the Justices banished into Ireland Revocation Commons Answer Breach of Oath Outlawry Appeal of murther Error in Parlâ—ament Scire facias Process Iohn Duke of Lancaster Steward of England Sir Th. Talbot Conspiring their deaths Treason Parliament to Judge thereof Kings and Lords Judges in Parliament Declares of what is Treason Writs to the Sheriff Capillâ— returnable in Kâ—ngs Bench. Proclamatâ—on Conviction of Treason Forfeiture Receiving a Traytor Tâ—eason Popes Provisions allowed to the Bishopâ—ick of Landaffe Noâ— obstâ—ntâ— No example Knight of Parliament slain Previledge No mainprise Commissions of Peace Lawyers bound Gâ—ol of delivery Aldermen of London Election Non obstante London Erronious Judgement Mayor Sheriffs Aldermen Penalty London Farrendon Ward Aldermen elected Act by the King and Lords alone Churchus Liberties Statutes observed Conspiracy County Res. Chancellour Supâ—rsedâ—as Silva Cedua declared Tithes Res. Serjeants at Arms. Serjeants Maces Liberties Collusion Religious persons Vâ—llaines Marriage Mortmain Res. Recognizances Obligation Vses Res. Tinne Lostwithiell Callice Kings Councel License Chimniage Forrest Forresters Res. Merchants Mâ—rchandize Frâ—e sale Custome Râ—s Imprisonment Great Charter Mony Half pence Corne transported Commons request Kent Collectors of Tenth Account Exchecquer Kersies Variance Worsted Benefices Sufficient persons Râ—sidence Bishops Office Resâ— London Officers Exactions Smithfield Res. Councell Abbot of Colchester and Abingdon Sanctuary Res. Liberties Councell Sheriffs allowance Res. Kings Councell Admiralty Jurisdiction Common Law Res. Chancellorâ— Justices Common Law Prohibition Green Wax Exchecquer Certainty Res. Passage of Wools. Normans Southampton Res. Callice Dammages Chancery Mault Searcheâ— Parliament ends Justices of Peace Printed acts not in the Roll. Vnlawfull Games Salmonâ— Writs of Summons Guardian of England Parliament adjourned Chancellour Causes of Parliament Churches Liberties Good Government Justice Kings passage to Ireland Conquest Message Petitions Irelands Conquest Tenth and Fifteen granted Sheriffs Overcharge Accounts Res. Kings Councell Constable of Nottingham Castle Extortion Coales Sherborne Forrest Res. Justices of Peace Bristoll Custome of Wine Chepstow Resp. Shoemakers Leather Resp. Leather Tanners Forfeiture Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Attorney Scire fac Error in Parliament Exemplification Default Errors examined Chief Justice Process Record Pleading Judgment in Kings Bench reversed in Parliament Judgment in the Common Bench affirmed Chancellor Judgment executed Writs of Summons King Chancellor Causes of Parliament Churches Liberties Government without oppression Good Laws Ill Laws amended Realms defence Enemies Scots Irish. Guienne Callice marches Consultation Petitions Sir Iohn Bussey chosen Speaker Kings assent to it Protestation Sir Thomas Talbot Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons desire the Bishops and Lords absent to be sent for Delay Commons excuse Misinterpreted Embassadors slayed Refer themselves to the Kings pleasure Kings speech Voyage Wars appeasing Losses by War Allyes Conscience to Vanquish Common Tyrant Kings Allyes Ayde Sir Thom. Talbot Justice required Chancellor Kings Officers Parliament Chancellor Conferrence with the Commons Commons desire Sheriffs continuance North marches Defence Liveries Kings enterprizes Houshold expences Kings answer Offence Kings freedome Commons against the Kings Dignity and Libertie Lords to declare it Speaker to declare the parties name delivered the Bill Lords declaration to the Commons Sir Tho. Haxey Knight Cleark of the Parliament Cleark of the Crown Commons excuse and submission to the King Good meaning Chancellor King excuseth them Commons bound to the King Desmes and Fifteens forborne Subsidy Tunage and Poundage granted Merchants Tower Gold Customes Security Customes Sureties Commons grant moderation of Provisors Kings Prerogative saved Arch-Bishop and Clergies Oath to the Pope Protestation enrolled Disassent to any thing against the Pope Sir Tho. Haxey Treason Pardon of Life Clergie Steward of the Houshold Bishop of Landaff Restitution Judgment Issues answered Fine for contempt Petition Fryers meâ—dicants Transfertation License Soveraign Prâ—muâ—â—â—â— William Earl of Salisbury Sciâ—e fâ—c Next Parliament Error Castle and Town of Denâ—â—igh Arch-Bishop of Canterbury His Prerogative confirmed Ward-ship Tenbridg Castle Earl of Stafford King sole Emperour of the Realm Denization Legitimation Bloud royall Charter Endenization Legitimation Duke of Lancaster Ioh. Beauford created Earl of Somerset Tayle Creation money Earl created his Robes Sword Charter of Creation read before the Lords and Commons Enstaulment Earl of Nottingham Tayle Earl Marshall of England Kings Bench. Exchecquer Charter read in Parliament Merchandize Variance Purveyance Horses Arrests Church-yards Excommunication Res. Armes Variance Liveries Justices of Assize Justices banished revoked Writs of Summons Writs of Summons King Chancellour Causes of Parliament Godâ— honour Realms safety Monarchy King King puissant Severe in Government Obedience to Laws Kings Prerogative Kings Coronation Oath Revocation Laws execution Judges Officers Laws defects redressed Subjâ—cts obedience to King and Laws Laws observation Liberties to all Pardon Petitions Sir Iohn Bussey Speaker presented Protestation entred Judgement reversed Clergies absence Proctor Clergies Sir Tho. Percie the Clergies Proctoâ— Speakers Speech Pardonâ— in Parliament repealed Pardon revoked Commons Protestation and accusation Commons impeachment of the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellour Commission trayterous Regall power encroâ—ched Subjects put to death without Royall assent Archbishops restraint required Judgement prayed against the Archbishop King to give Judgment Archbishops private submission King and Lords judges Adjudged a Traytor Archbishop banished Forfeiture of his estate Banishment Treason Sir Th. Mortimer Treason Impeachment Flight Proclamation Submission Conviction Adherents Traytors Parliament Repeal Bishops and Lords Oath Ordinances of Parliament Oath enrolledâ— Taken before Livery Excommunication Issues Attaindâ—r Forejudged Forejudged Benefices Attainder William Monteacute Earl of Salisbury Errors assigned in Parliament Scire facias Next Parliament King purgethâ— sundry Loâ—ds Commissions execution Loyalty Traytors and Rebels desert Purgation Chester Principality Commons request Serjeants at Arms. VVorcester Castle and Tame Courts Duke of Glocester Judgements Ordinances Declarationâ— and continue as Statutes Rochester Bridge Rents and Customs to be to the New Bridge Commons request Noâ—â—h Marches defence Nobles advanced King Royall Scepter Duke of Hereford created Tayle Charter of creation read Sword girt on Cap of honour as a Duke Earl of Rutland Duke of Aumerle creâ—ted Eaâ—l of Kâ—nt created Duke of Sur. Iohn de Holland Duke of Exeter Sir Tho. Mowbray Dukâ— of Noâ—folk Dutchess of Norfolk creâ—ted Marquâ—ss oâ— Dorset created Eâ—rl of Gloucester created Earl of Westmerland created
Instrument from Rome and to bring them forthwith before the Council to answer thereto That the Deanry of York which is to be recovered by Judgment in the Kings Court may be bestowed upon some able man within the Realm who will maintain the same against him who holdeth the same by provision from Rome being the Common Enemy to the King and to the Realm and that the mean profits may be imployed upon the defence of the Realm To all which Petitions Answer was made in form following It is agreed by the King Earls Barons Justices and other wife men of the Realm That the Petitions aforesaid be made in sufficient form of Law According to the Petitions aforesaid certain Process made against Sir William de la Pool and Reynold at Conduite out of the Exchequer is revoked as erroneous and that they shall be charged a new to accompt for monies received for the Kings Wooll notwithstanding any Letter of Acquittance to them made The which Accord was sent to the King to know his pleasure therein The Petitions of the Clerks of the Chancery That where the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the time being ought to have the Cognisance of all Pleas of Trespasses done by the said Clerks or other Servants where the Chancery shall remain yet notwithstanding the Sheriffs of London had attached one Gilbert of Chrishull a Clerk of the said Chancery in London at the suit of Killingbury a Draper upon a Bill of Trespass which Gilbert brought a Supersedeas of Priviledge to the said Sheriffs which they would not allow but drew him so find Sureties The Clerks pray remedy therefore and maintenance of their liberties The Parliament doth confirm their liberties and reciting the contempt for neglecting the Process conclude that Writs be sent to the Mayor of London to attach the Sheriffs and others who were parties and maintainers of the quarrel by their bodies to appear before the King in the Chancery at a day certain to answer as well to the Contempts of the Process as to the breach of the liberty and damage of tha party At the Petition of the Commons of Nottingham it is enacted That as wâ—ll the Gaol of Nottingham which the King hath granted to Sir Iohn Brocas during his life as all other Gaols in the like case should be annexed to the Sheriffwick of every County according to an Act made Anno 14 Edwardi Tertii That no man within Cities or Towns or elswhere do carry Maces of Silver but only the Kings Serjeants but that they carry Maces of Copper only and of no other metal The same shall be so except of the Serjeants of the City of London who may carry their Maces of silver within the liberty of London before the Mayor in the presence of the King On the back-side of the Roll The form of the Writ of Supersedeas for staying of Exigents in this Parliament before agreed The form of Supersedes for staying to proceed further in certain new Commissions before expressed The form of Supersedes for staying of Commissions for the Assise of Weights and Measures before mentioned The form of a Commission to the Barons of the Exchequer to call such Commissioners to accompt as were appointed upon the Assise of Weights and Measures The Writ of Proclamation for the free buying of Wooll The Writ that no man shall be enforced to receive Gold the sum being under Twenty shillings A Declaration made against such persons against whom Exigents should pass Of the Oaths of Justices and of the Clerks of the Chancery expressed in the Print there is no mention made in the Record Anno Vicesimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord in the Twentieth Year of King Edward the Third COmmandment was given the same day by Sir Lionel the Kings son Lord Keeper of England that Proclamation should be made against wearing of Armor and Games in Westminster as in the last Parliament Tit. 2. A time to all such as will exhibit any Petition Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales Scotland Gascoin and other Forein Isles and Parts Tryers of the Petitions aforesaid Sir Thomas Drayton is appointed Clerk of the Parliament For that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not at this day come the Parliament was continued until Tuesday On which Tuesday for that knowledge was given that Sir Bartholmew de Burghurst Sir Iohn Darcy Lord Chamberlain Mr. Iohn Thoresby Clerk of the Privy-Seal and Mr. Iohn Charlton were arrived and come Messengers from the King at Callis and that they meant to be at the Parliament the Wednesday next the Parliament continued untill Wednesday On which day Declaration was made That since the King by his passing over the Sea and his attempt there was uncertain of his estate the Parliament was called according to the success of things there the like here might be established for the safety of the King the common peace of the whole Realm and for the avoiding of false money by which the whole Realm was damnified after which they shewed the Kings Letters Patents of credit the same being expressed by word and dated before Callice After the understanding of these Letters the same Bartholomew for and in the name of himself and of his Colleagues in the presence of the Keeper of England and of the whole estate declared the good success of the King since his arrival at Hoges in Normandie as in surprizing of many Towns and Castles of War as well at Cane as elsewhere and aso of the victory at Orestlie where the power of France was discomfited And further how the King was come before Callice from whence he meant not to depart untill by the help of God he gained the same after which he would pursue the enemies without return untill the wars were ended He further sheweth an Order between the Duke and Nobles of Normandie The Order aforesaid is particularly recited and is called The Ordinance of Normandie containing the effect following That the Duke of Normandy should passe as Chieftain with other Nobles of the same into England with forty thousand men at Arms Knights Esquires and men of good estate and forty thousand footmen An Order for bearing of their charges for keeping of the Sea and for the Duke to remain with his power in England ten weeks And it is agreed That in case the Realm of England be by the same voyage conquered that then the said conquest shall altogether be to the name and honour of the said Duke and all that which the King of England hath shall remain to the said Duke Knights and Lords And all the same which belongeth to the Nobles and secular persons of England shall be
bestowed upon the Churches Noblemen and famous Towns of Normandie And of the Revenues of the Church of England the French King shall yearly have twenty thousand pounds saving the Popes rights And that surrender be made to the Scots of whatsoever hath at any time been taken from them After which Order read the same Messengers required the whole Estate to be advised what aid they will grant to the King for the furtherance of his enterprise The Commons require respite until Thursday then ensuing The same Thursday the Commons by a Schedule declare the sundry particular former aids the Imposition of forty shillings custome of Wool extorted of them against Law besides the arraying of men and common taking of Purveyors notwithstanding they graâ—t to the King two fifteens in two years that then the latter fifteen do also cease Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That all the Acts of Parliament before made may be observed so as they pass forth no Commissions for arraying of men The first point the King granteth of the rest he will be advised That such as were fined for not arraying of men may therefore be discharged The King will be advised That all within six miles of the Sea may have a Supersedeas for arraying of men That such as keep the Sea-coasts shall have a Supersedeas It is enacted That the Coining in all places shall be open as heretofore It is enacted That the Bringer of False money into the Realm shall lose life and member And that the Justices of Assise and of the Peace shall enquire of the same That the Kings Receivers may receive as well Gold as Silver and that the Changers thereof be not without Parliament The first is granted the second respited That the Forty shillings Subsidy of every Sack of Wooll may cease The King must first therein be moved The paiment be made for the last taking up of victuals Order shall be taken therein That the best of every County may be Justices of Peace and that they may determine all Felonies The first point is granted For the second the King will appoint learned Justices That the keeping of the Sea may from henceforth be at the Kings charge It shall be kept as heretofore it hath been That Sheriffs in every County may have sufficient in their Counties and that none of those Offices be granted for life or in Fee That Purveyors not taking the Constables with them according to the Statute of Westminster may be taken as Theeves and that Justices of Assise and Peace may enquire of the same The Statute made shall be observed That the Fifteens in Towns and antient Demesns be levied as in the bodies of Counties without increase The same shall be levied according to accustomed use That all Justices of Enquires be sworn as Justices of the Bench and that the Chief of them have power to swear the rest Such Justices shall be sworne as appertaineth so as they shall take nothing but meat and drink and that of small value and the Chief shall swear all the rest That the Fifteens beyond Trent be imployed only upon the defence of the North. The King will foresee the defence aforesaid That strangers enemies of the Realm and remaining now in Newgate may be judged during the Parliament They shall remain there till further order That no Charter of Pardon may be granted since the Kings last passage Advice shall be taken It is enacted That Lumbards and other Merchants shall receive gold for their ware without any other compact or pain of Fine or imprisonment That all Alien Monks do avoid the Realm by Michaelmas and that their livings be disposed to yong English Schollars The persons being spiritual cannot be tryed by Parliament their livings being in the Kings hands and without him cannot be disposed That the King may take the profits of all other strangers livings as Cardinals and others during their lives The King taketh the profits and the Councel hath sent their Petition to the King That such Aliens enemies as be advanced to livings they being in their own Countries Shoomakers Taylors or Chamberlains to Cardinals may depart before Michaelmas and their livings disposed to poor English Schollers As Tit. 3. That no payment be suffered to be made to any Cardinals living in France to intreat of war or peace The same is granted as reasonable That Aliens buying provisions or provisors do avoid the Realm as before or to be out of the Law The Statute heretofore made shall be observed and the King shall signifie to the Pope thereof That the yearly advancement of two thousand Marks granted out of the Provinces of Canterbury may be restrained and such as shall persue therefore to be out of the Law The Lords think the same but reasonable and it is further commanded that no such be from henceforth received It is enacted that whosoever shall bring into the Realm any Aliens enemies in any vessel that the same vessell be forfeited and the bodie of the bringers at the Kings pleasure That no Englishman do take any thing in Farm of any Alien religious nor buy any of their goods nor be of their Councel on pain of perpetual imprisonment These are against the Kings profit who lacketh such profits of the Farmers It is enacted that during the Wars no person do transport or send any money to the Pope nor to any Bishop or other Alien for what duty whatsoever Order shall be taken with every General of all houses of Fryers that they shall so look to all Fryers Aliens as that they shall not disclose the secrets of the Realm Where the Commons request was that those Fryers should depart the Realm never to return That the pension of seven shillings which Raymond Pilegrin receiveth yearly of every house of Religion within the Realm may cease The same Raymond is the Kings liegeman born in Gascoin and is sworn to be of the Kings Councel who by his procuracy receiveth the same That the yearly Pension of two thousand pound paid to the Abbot of Cluny the Kings enemy may cease for ever The same is payed there It is enacted that no person do bring into the Realm to any Bishop or other any Bull or other Letters from Rome or from any Alien unless he shew the same to the Chancellor or Warden of the Cinque-Ports on losse of all that he hath That the Statute made that the King should present to any Church of his gift falling void at any time within three years so as if the Parson had continued therein for three years that he should not be put out may stand The King will